- Ted Ballard and his wife own the National Lighter Museum ...www.outwestnewspaper.com/camels.html
- Return To Index Webmaster's note: Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, for whom Beale s Cut in Newhall would later be named, led the U.S. Camel Corps on an expedition from Arizona to California in 1857. After the U.S. Army abandoned the short-lived experiment, Beale, who attained the rank of General, used some of the camels as pack animals to carry supplies from Los Angeles to his base at Fort Tejon ...scvhistory.com/scvhistory/hijolly-ap.htm
- Camels in Texas -- 1856 Following the California gold rush of 1849, there became an increasing need to protect and supply the growing population of Americans in the southwest. After attempts to build a transcontinental railroad succumed to sectional politics, U. S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis decided to experiment with camels as a means for transporting military provisions across west Texas ...www.lsjunction.com/facts/camels.htm
