Forrest Bryant Johnson’s new book, The Last Camel Charge: The Untold Story of America’s Desert Military Experiment, is a fascinating story, telling aspects of the American West that most of us know little about. We know a bit about the camel experiment, the Mormon Mountain Meadows Massacre, migrations west, the Colorado River and a few Indian problems in the  Arizona and California deserts. Johnson weaves these into one well-researched, fast-paced narrative of 1850s America. A Western hi


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