The Last Camel Charge
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“A fascinating story, telling aspects of the American West that most of us know little about.”—True West Magazine
In the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was on the verge of employing a weapon that had never before been seen on its native soil: a cavalry mount that would fare better…
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I visited Fort Davis, Texas, this past summer as part of a research trip for a new novel. Fort Davis was established in an isolated part of West Texas to protect settlers heading westward from Indians. At the Fort Davis museum, I stumbled upon The Last Camel Charge, The Untold Story of America’s Desert Military Campaign. I had already read about how the US military had imported camels from the Middle East in 1855.
I loved this book because of the quirky historical details that are recounted as an engaging narrative. Johnson’s non-fiction book reads almost like a novel!…
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