Twenty proud black Buffalo Soldiers rode through the prairies and towns of rural Missouri 125 years ago as part of a 1,900-mile bicycle journey. Known as “The Iron Riders,” this
In 1987, the 20 Black members of the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps Buffalo Soldiers, they were called along with two officers and a reporter rode up and over the mountains of Montana, across Wyoming and Nebraska and all the way to St. Louis.