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The National Association of Buffalo Soldiers/Troopers Motorcycle Clubs (NABSTMC) was formed c. 1999. [2] The organization was officially created at the 1999 National Round-Up. There a meeting was held, invited to that meeting were Presidents and Vice Presidents of most of the MC that at the time were using the name Buffalo Soldiers.
He is the author of a novel, 1993's Buffalo Soldiers, which was adapted into the film of the same name. The literary magazine Granta called him one of the most promising young novelists, [2] and novelist James Carroll, in a positive review in The New York Times, called him a "fine novelist."
Born into slavery in Louisville, Kentucky in 1842, [a] Allensworth was the youngest of thirteen children of Phyllis (c. 1782 – 1878) and Levi Allensworth. [4] Over the years, their family was scattered: his sister Lila escaped with her intended husband to Canada via the Underground Railroad; and the older boys William, George, Frank, Levi and Major were sold downriver to plantations in the ...
Morton-Finney enrolled at Lincoln College in Missouri, but his education was interrupted by military service. [1] He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1911, becoming a member of the 24th U.S. Infantry Regiment (a regiment of African American soldiers, better known as Buffalo soldiers) and served in the Philippines.
Buffalo Soldier sites from 1860–1900 Image taken in 1898 of the 9th U.S. Cavalry.. Sources disagree on how the nickname "Buffalo Soldiers" began. According to the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum the name originated with the Cheyenne warriors in the winter of 1877, the actual Cheyenne translation being "Wild Buffalo".
McBryar enlisted in the 10th Cavalry on January 3, 1887, for a period of five years [3] and requested assignment on the frontier. A Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army, he received America's highest military decoration – the Medal of Honor – for his actions during the March 7, 1890, Cherry Creek Campaign in Arizona Territory while serving as a sergeant in Company K of the 10th ...
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John Bigelow Jr. (May 12, 1854 – 1936) was a United States Army lieutenant colonel.He was the subject of many articles on military frontier life in Outing Magazine published by his brother Poultney Bigelow and with sketches drawn in the field by the then young and obscure Frederic Remington.