Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1

1645.325 - 1666.185 Lindsey Graham

The soldiers would be tasked with supporting westward expansion by building roads and telegraph lines, protecting settlers and railroad construction crews, and escorting U.S. mail carriers. But above all else, they would be charged with subduing the American Indians who stood in the way of this westward expansion. For centuries, Indians of the Great Plains were free and independent.