Buffalo Soldier Speaks
Summary: "A Buffalo Soldier Speaks" an audio podcast featuring National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson as Sergeant Elizy Boman, Troop "K", Ninth U.S. Cavalry, who was dispatched to Yosemite National Park in 1903 and served there through 1904.
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Podcasts:
Sgt. Boman talks about Time as its own sort of geography, that in the Sierra Nevada you can get lost in the when, the here and now, as easily as taking a wrong turn in the mountains.
Sgt. Boman continues this conversation about colored men who serve in the military, and their fight for freedoms that are elusive once they return from the battlefield.
Sgt. Boman tells of an encounter in Jerseydale that prompts him to consider some of the differences between being a colored soldier versus a white soldier in a time of war.
After Sgt. Boman evicts a poacher from the park, he has a feeling that he may be the one who's being stalked.
Sgt. Boman has a birthday in Yosemite Valley and thinks about the family he has left behind in the South.
Quiet is a good thing to find in a city, but what about Yosemite?
Sgt. Boman races to the safety of a meadow while Mono winds rise around him.
A routine patrol for Sgt. Boman and Cpl. Bingham becomes dangerous during a breezy day.
A routine patrol for Sgt. Boman and Cpl. Bingham becomes dangerous during a breezy day.
Sgt. Boman encounters trouble on an early Spring patrol in a high country still covered with snow.
Sgt. Boman encounters trouble on an early Spring patrol in a high country still covered with snow.
Sgt. Boman experiences wildfire in the high country.
Sgt. Boman experiences wildfire in the high country.
Sgt. Boman has his first experience with winter in Yosemite.
Sgt. Boman has his first experience with winter in Yosemite.
