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The 1850s Desert Camel Corps Experiment
In the 1850s, the U.S. Army imported camels to solve desert logistics, but soldiers hated them and the Civil War abruptly shut down the project. Here is the bizarre true story of America’s forgotten Desert Camel Corps—and what happened when they were turned loose in the wild.
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