Want to know more about this important chapter in American history,
when our military entered the area of healing race relations? I would
highly recommend "Iron Riders: Story of the 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo
Soldiers Bicycle Corps," by Geroge Niels Sorensen, Pictorial Histories
Publishing, first printing June 2000. Andy's correct in his
characterization. First chapter is "Shaping a Person's Chartacter."
Bill Hauda
On 5/17/2015 7:44 AM, Andy Bach wrote:
The site's a bit odd - didn't work in Safari
http://www.thesca.org/connect/blog/buffalo-soldiers-bicycle-800-miles-yellowstone
The 16-day jaunt to Yellowstone was merely a practice run. The true
test for both the bikes and the unfathomably intrepid men riding them
was a 1,900 mile, 34 day trek from Missoula to St. Louis. The journey
took them through wildly diverse weather and terrain—they endured
rain, hail, punishing heat, they muscled through the Rockies and
struggled through Nebraska’s “notorious sand hills.” Each bike, fully
loaded with gear and rations, weighed 76 pounds. Keep all this in mind
as you pedal to work this week
<https://cyclingdynamics.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/bicycle_cartoon.gif> in
celebration of Bike Month <http://bikeleague.org/bikemonth>.
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Andy Bach,
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