Camels West\u00a0<\/em>is an epic adventure story based on a real but lit\u00adtle-known period in America\u2019s history.<\/p>\nThe day the Alamo fell in 1836, Santa Ana\u2019s soldiers botched the job of killing the Mexican infant Graciela. But the knife-cut across her throat did take away her voice forever. Now, twenty years later, the United States Congress is depending upon the young woman\u2019s medical skills and courage to help their agent in a tactical experiment using imported camels. The camels are to be transport carriers as Agent McNeal\u00a0surveys a wagon road along the 35th Parallel from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River.<\/p>\n
If all goes well, use of these camels would be the first step in a plan to study, breed, and adapt camels at Camp Verde for both long-\u00addistance transport and war. Camels were used successfully by the Persian Army as artillery base carriers, and their reputation as \u201cGunships of the Desert\u201d was impressive. Camels would be as familiar as the packhorse and donkey on the American frontier and in war! But the plan needed time, and the American Civil War and the railroad ultimately ended the experiment.<\/p>\n
The camels, their handlers, the Comanche danger, and the trek are all true. This is the sensational story of the exotic camels and the commitment of a man and a woman to their jobs\u2014and to each other.<\/p>\n
U.S. government agent Jeremy McNeal is based on a real person. Graciela is fiction, to round out the story with romance and to add the dimension of a woman\u2019s emotions. She is a representation of all the strong women who helped open the West. The herbal medicines and skills ascribed to her char\u00adacter have all been meticulously researched and are accurate.<\/p>\n
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