Texans can't ride camels either......
Though I remember when I was a kid a Dallas was on the air and all the kids from up north seemed to think we had horses and oil wells....
Been there, did it .... it was ugly but there ain’t nuthin a real Texan can’t (try to) ride....:o)
They did until the War of Northern Aggression caused the disbanding of the Camel Corps.
" In 1855, some men went to Europe and Africa to sturdy the habits of camels in captivity. Buying 33 camels in Egypt and Turkey, they took on three Arab handlers, sailed back to Texas and began training People living near Camp Verde, Texas admired the camels; a woman sent President Franklin Pierce a pair of socks knitted "from the pile of one of our camels". When the westward expeditions started in 1856, the officers reported their camels superior to horse and mule trains. Another 41 camels were added to the corps in 1857. P. Gilmer Breckinridge of Virginia, in charge of 25 camels, inscribed his name as a caravan passed El Morro that year. "The camels are coming", read a newspaper headline when these exotic beasts pulled an express wagon into Los Angeles in December 1857. "Their approach made quite a stir among the native population, most of whom had never seen the like." The article told how camels could pull a load over a mountain where mules balked, ate cactus, and could "live well where domestic animals would die". Camp Verde fell into Confederate hands at the beginning of the Civil War, ending the camel corps."
https://www.nps.gov/elmo/learn/historyculture/the-army-camel-corps.htm
Who needs to ride a camel when there’s so many fine quarter horse in the state?