Horses Mules and Camels

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Introduction

The Royal Engineers

Horses, Mules and Camels

More about those Camels

Barnard's Express

Bibliography


Calbreath


Camel in the Cariboo

Calbreath, born in New York in 1862, had left home in 1849 for the California goldfields. He married Carolyn Smith, and had a son named James in 1857 in LaGrange, California.

After the baby's birth, the young couple departed for the Cariboo to run a boarding house, and farm at Soda Creek.

Callbreath advanced William Francis Laumeister the cash to purchase 23 camels from the United States army for $300 per animal. This little venture also included Adam Heffley and Henry Ingram.



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