Inland looks interesting and I might give it a go too.
I didn't know that there had been a US Camel Corps until just now seeing it being mentioned in relation to this book. It conjures up some interesting images in my mind
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There are a lot of wild camels in Australia, supposedly the largest population of them in the world (not that I have ever seem them as I have tended to stick to "civilization" when over there). At primary school, years ago, we were taught about the Australian Burke and Wills expedition (its intention was sort of like the much earlier US Lewis and Clark expedition, but Burke and Wills didn't survive theirs) and that camels and their riders were imported and first used for that. The expedition was around the same time as the US Camel Corps.