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Posted: 18 Mar 2014

Taken: 11 Mar 2014

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Quartzsite cemetery "Hi Jolly" memorial (1458)

Quartzsite cemetery "Hi Jolly" memorial (1458)
Sign describing the efforts to introduce camels to the Arizona desert in the 1850's, and the role of Haiji Ali ("Hi Jolly"), a Syrian, in adapting the camels to the American desert.
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 Clint
Clint
I have vague memories of a movie (maybe a Disney film) about this when I was a kid. I wonder how long the camels lasted.
11 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Per Wikipedia, the move was Hawmps! and many of the camels were sold to private citizens, so there's no record of how long they lived. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps
11 years ago.
Clint has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Ah! It's from the same people who did the Benji movies, which is probably why I watched it. I had a deep obsession with the Benji movies.
11 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Benji? What's that? (I actually did have to look it up, I've never seen one. Were they sort of Lassie, just 20 years later?)
11 years ago.

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