Posted on 08/09/2015 9:18:49 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
As the last Camel was being BBQ’D, someone was overheard saying, “Dang, It does taste like Chicken”. Anyone bring any Rudy’s Sauce?
Very interesting story all the same.
Interesting bit is that there existed a “mule lobby”.
Some things never change.
Very interesting but makes no mention of Hi Jolly. Once visited his grave in Quartzsite, Arizona.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Jolly
We were lucky...at one time there were some one million wild camels in Australia, and the population was projected to double every decade. In 2009, the gov’t started to cull the heard ( where the heck was PETA?) and now it’s down to about 300,000.
They disappeared on a “Death Valley Days” episode back when I was a kid. I remember watching it. :>)
The liberal historical depository is currently experiencing site difficulties ...
Fascinating. Thanks for the link.
If you close the site and click on it a 2nd time, it will usually come up. Their links have been this way all morning.
Camp Verde Texas is about 15 miles from my house. There’s a great restaurant there now.
http://texas-hill-country.com/issue/2015/article/camels-of-camp-verde
They've been biding their time, arming up:
DVDays missed a golden opportunity to get a tobacco sponsor on that one. ;’)
I live in New Braunfels, a Texas town of intense German heritage. The German immigrants landed at Indianola on Matagorda Bay and made their way inland.
The Army landed their camels at Indianola, also. Indianola once had a population of 5,000 but is now a ghost town (actually just a historical marker), having been destroyed by two hurricanes in the 1800s.
Just went down to Camp Verde, Texas a few weeks ago. Nothing there but a monument and a great restaurant, which was our real reason for going.
Jefferson Davis, while Secretary of War, had the camels brought over from the Middle East along with handlers. The story is the Camels were more or less abandoned when the Civil War broke out and the camp was closed. I wonder if the ones in AZ wondered over to the more desert like conditions. (I didn’t read the article. Yet.)
They never mention Jefferson Davis, huh.
You live in a beautiful part of Texas.
What’s the story on that rail road bridge out in the middle of nowhere?
If you have ever been around camels they are not nice fun animals. Lets see bite, spite and smell like sh$t, all around just a big wonderful friend of the waste lands.
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