In the days before the US entered World War 1, this section of Arizona and New Mexico was overrun by both American and Mexican outlaws who used the border to great benefit. In 1916, the US Army deployed the 9th US Calvary to the area, and Troop K was assigned to a campground about five miles from my house. They were deployed for about ten years and built up an stockade just north of the border. The barracks and stables were abandoned sometime in the 1930s and today they sit in ruins. I was down at the bar on the border and looking at the historic photos of the soldiers being deployed,( the bar was the tallest point in town so two maxim machine guns were installed on the roof), when I noticed something I'd never picked up before. There, staring me in the face, was a photo of a bunch of Buffalo Soldiers with their white commanding officer. That officer was Major Malcolm Nicholson Wheeler, the man who created the comic book as we know it and who founded the company we call DC.