Hill Country Chronicles by Clay Coppedge

Author:Clay Coppedge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2010-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

CAMELS FOR TEXAS

If Jefferson Davis and others could have had their way, camels might have become as much a symbol of Texas ingenuity and grit as the longhorn or the mustang. Mules, oxen and other beasts of burden might have found themselves ignominiously unemployed when it came to time to cross American deserts and mountains. Rodeos and horse tracks would look a lot different, and cowboys would have a whole different set of skills. It could have happened.

That it didn't work out quite that way isn't wholly the fault of the camels. They proved more than adequate for the tasks assigned them but Davis, Robert E. Lee (who was charged with protecting the camels for a time when he was stationed in Texas) and indeed the entire country was forced to take on other considerations, mainly a little episode in our history known as the American Civil War. As much as anything, politics doomed the camel experiment in Texas.

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