PARK PIONEER
Nov 26, 2019
2 minutes
—M.C.
In the spring of 1903 the Army sent forth the nation’s first black park superintendent, as U.S. Army Captain Charles Young led a company of buffalo soldiers from the Presidio of San Francisco up to Sequoia and General Grant (present-day Kings Canyon) national parks.
Young’s tenure was marked by ambitious
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