Through battles and baseball, Buffalo Soldiers changed Utah. Here’s how to follow their trail.
The rich history of all-Black regiments throughout the state is “often not told and often forgotten.”
(Fort Douglas Military Museum) Buffalo Soldiers with the M1873 Springfield Trapdoor rifle. Members of the 24th Infantry, on campaign duty, are lined up with an experimental blanket roll they were testing for the U.S. Army, circa 1893.