The number of buffalo soldiers at Fort Huachuca varied, according to estimates provided by the museum's Steve Gregory. In the late 1800s through the 1920s, their numbers swung between about 300 ...

The annual award is named on behalf of the "Buffalo Soldiers," or members of African-American cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army started in the 1800s serving in the western United States.

Visitors who braved the 100-degree weather for the Peña Adobe Historical Society’s monthly open house were rewarded with the rich oral and visual tradition of the Buffalo Soldiers.