Naco, AZ originally was a railroad town and, around 1900, hosted one of a string of 12 forts on the Mexican border . The soldiers that manned this fort and nearby Fort Huachuca we...
re Buffalo Soldiers. In the segregated army after the Civil War, army units were segregated by race. The Black Calvary units were very active in the western Indian wars. The tightly kinked hair, cut into military haircuts reminded the Indians of the hair on a buffalo and called them "Buffalo Soldiers". The name stuck. Fort Naco housed the 9th and 10th Cavalries of Buffalo Soldiers.