Posted on 09/08/2013 4:43:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
re: “CAMELS. In 1836 Maj. George H. Crosman urged the United States War Department to use camels in Indian campaigns in Florida because of the animals ability to keep on the move with a minimum of food and water.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/quc01"
The same thought crossed my mind, the experimental use by the Army of camels in the Southwest. There are even still camel races in Virginia City, Nevada that go back to that time period. I wondered if these oil guys had inadvertently run across the bones of one those camels.
The legend of “The Tall Buffalo” is well known throughout the Indian tribes of Oklahoma. They are also known as the CHEE-SHA-NISH which roughly translates to “Evil Tempered Spitting Horses”.
Oklahoma looks like an office with cubicles! Who knew?
later
Thank you very much. I find it odd how imprecise stories are today, sending readers to Google, how everything is in terms that of region.
Thank you for answering my question.
North of Cheyenne, out in Roger Mills County.
The Packsaddle Bridge -- which carries US 283 over the South Canadian -- is the longest in the state, approaching one mile in length.
Thx, okie.
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