The 13 Indians were not killed by Randall, but rather by the soldiers coming to rescue him. While Indians started to use the term Buffalo Soldiers around that time, there is no direct connection to the incident with Randall. See for instance: William H. Leckie, Shirley A. Leckie. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, ISBN978-0-8061-8389-3, pp. 26-27Archived November 12, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
Wallis, O. L. (September 1951), "Yosemite's Pioneer Arboreetum"(PDF), Yosemite Nature Notes, vol. XXX, Number 9, Yosimite Natural History Association, Inc., p. 83, archived(PDF) from the original on June 6, 2011, retrieved May 5, 2010
The 13 Indians were not killed by Randall, but rather by the soldiers coming to rescue him. While Indians started to use the term Buffalo Soldiers around that time, there is no direct connection to the incident with Randall. See for instance: William H. Leckie, Shirley A. Leckie. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, ISBN978-0-8061-8389-3, pp. 26-27Archived November 12, 2023, at the Wayback Machine
Wallis, O. L. (September 1951), "Yosemite's Pioneer Arboreetum"(PDF), Yosemite Nature Notes, vol. XXX, Number 9, Yosimite Natural History Association, Inc., p. 83, archived(PDF) from the original on June 6, 2011, retrieved May 5, 2010