One of the West’s most bizarre events took place along the Colorado River on a grey January morning in 1858. A camel caravan looking like something right out of the Arabian Nights was preparing to cross the muddy river. Riding wagon painted bright red like some circus ringmaster sat a dashing Army lieutenant named Ned Beale. He was leading the Camel Corps, surveying a wagon road to California
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