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The Last Camel Charge: The Untold Story of America's Desert Military Experiment
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Author
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Forrest Bryant Johnson.
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Publisher
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Berkley
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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1.25
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ISBN
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9780425245699
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Pages/Publication Date
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365/2012
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Daedalus Item Code
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23115
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Following the Mexican-American War in 1848, the U.S. Army realized its urgent need for better transportation in the arid Southwest and turned to the camel as a creature able to cross the desert at speed and go for days without water, all while carrying three times the load of a mule. Forrest Bryant Johnson's episodic, entertaining history tracks the camel's brief, little-known, yet successful career in the army, from events leading up to their introduction in 1856 at Camp Verde, Texas, to the dissolution of the U.S. Camel Corps in the face of the Civil War. With portraits of such figures as corps commander Edward F. Beale and camel driver Hadji "Hi Jolly" Ali, Johnson traces the fate of the camels and those who had come to respect and admire them.
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