Word: tejon
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...dromedaries had been landed alive in Texas at a cost of $30,000. Troops of them were maintained at El Paso, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort Tejon, Calif. Loaded with 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. of supplies, they did not cross the U. S. desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary...