Visitors to Fort Davis National Historic Site this week will have the opportunity to learn about one of the U.S. Army’s most unusual 19th-century ventures: the Camel Corps.
Doug Baum and the Texas Camel Corps will be on site Wednesday and Thursday, May 14–15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., sharing the story of the U.S. Army Camel Experiment, which brought camels through Fort Davis in the 1850s.
The event is sponsored by the Western National Parks Association and aims to educate the public about the short-lived military initiative, which began in 1856 when 34 camels arrived in Indianola, Texas. The camels later traveled routes that would become part of Fort Davis, El Morro National Monument, and Petrified Forest National Park.
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