Can the camel survive in America?

the Arabian camel:Camelus dromedarius

There are two types of camels. The first is the Arabian camel, which lives in North Africa and the Middle East. The second is the camel that lives in Central Asia. Both species are found in deserts, prairies, or steppe. Some believe that beauty does not They can live in non-warm climates, but in fact they can live well at temperatures ranging from 15 to 49 degrees Celsius.

a pyramidal statue of HI JOLLY or HADJI ALIIn Arizona, USA

 In Arizona, USA, a pyramidal statue of stone on top of which a copper camel was erected. The monument was ordered by the Governor of Arizona in 1935 in honor of the Syrian Bedouin pilgrim. Hadji Ali story tells the entry of the camel to the United States of America.

The United States Government is in a rush to the west to introduce camels as a means of transport in the vast desert areas of the south-west of the country. When Jefferson Davies became president of the US Senate Military Committee in 1853, the United States purchased a number of camels from the Levant in 1856-1857, working in scattered centers of south-west expansion and bringing a number of apologies to their experience in this the field. Their camel drivers was called HADJI Ali. 

Camels were excluded from military service in the US Army after the cessation of the American war (1861-1865), and the development of desert transport there. HADJI ALI continued to serve the US military for several years, then resigned to work in the field of gold mining, and hit until his death in 1902 rich and famous. Arizona recognized this Arab expert and erected a monumental memorial monument erected on top of it by a metal shaft. This is what I found in our Arab sources. There are additional information mentioned by US sources about HADJI Ali or Hay Jolie as the Americans called, summarized in the following paragraphs:

The story of Hay Jolie (an Arab from Syria) begins when he told Defense Secretary Jefferson Davis of a new idea of ​​importing camels to Texas to California. It was a dry, climate-like region in the Middle East. Davis convinced the idea and presented it to Congress. Congress approved and saved $30,000 for the project. He sent Major Henry Wayne to the Middle East and bought thirty-three camels, with great difficulty carrying them on the deck of a warship, and sent them to Texas. There she was escorted by Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald. Forty-four other camels arrived later. HADJI AlI and some Arabs were appointed to teach the soldiers how to carry them on camels.

The Americans found it hard to pronounce HADJI Ali's name, calling him Hay Jolly. In 1857 Bail went on a journey to the West, with Hay Jolie as the captain of the camel. Each was loaded from six hundred to eight hundred pounds, cut from twenty-five to thirty miles a day. If the distances were cut well, a series of army post offices would be set up along the southwest route to deliver mail and supplies. They arrived in California and returned to Texas, and this was a success for Lieutenant Bale. "The more intense the testing of these animals, the more worthy of all that is said," Beale wrote of the camel, showing water for days under the bright sun and not drinking a drop, carrying heavy loads of corn and oats for months and not eating one. The day when these economic animals are used in all the postal routes of this continent. " The donkeys and mules of the US Army were afraid of the strange sight of that animal (camel). In 1858, War Secretary John Floyd told Congress: The use of camels in plains and flatlands for military purposes could now become official. He urged Congress to buy another 1,000 camels, but Congress did not do so at the time about the problems between the south and the north. With the first shot in the civil war, the camel military project died.

Some were sold at auction in 1866, some fled to the desert, later killed by hunters and some sold at auctions from camels to the California zoo. Some of them went to the circus. Hadji Ali kept some of them and began his shipping work between cities overlooking the Colorado River and camps And mining sites in the east. But the project failed, and Hadji Ali released the last camel in the desert near Gila Bend.

On the day of his death Hadji Ali believed that some camel still roamed the desert, and some people thought that the ghosts of some camels were still there. 

This is the story of Hadji Ali. In short, this is the first entry into the United States of the Arab camel, it seems to me.