camels | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 U. S. Camel Corps https://boneblogger.com/u-s-camel-corps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-camel-corps Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:22:29 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2371 Few people know that the United States had a Camel Corps.  About 1836 Major George H. Crosman suggested to the United States government that camels could be used as pack animals in Florida during the Seminole Wars. Few persons in the government took this suggestion seriously but Senator Jefferson Davis was an advocate of this […]

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