Episode 110 (Lost Camels)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We hear a bunch of Ryland, by Julian Lage off his World's Fair LP.
We hear the Flamingos do Where or When.
We hear Chilly Gonzalez' Salon Salloon
And finish out on Small Memory by Jon Hopkins

Notes

There's a bunch out there about the Camel Corps. You'll have fun Googling around. But some of the best details in here, including the remarkable thing about the Red Ghost, comes from this article from a 1961 issue of American Heritage.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.6	I'm Nate de Mayo.
0:07.1	By the time he made it to Central Texas, Major Wayne had already kind of fallen in love
0:11.4	with the camels.
0:13.5	The idea had made sense to him.
0:15.3	In theory, when he'd gotten the assignment, this was spring of 1855.
0:19.9	The army was taking on greater operational responsibility in the southwestern territories.
0:25.4	And the camels were like horses or emules but for the desert, right?
0:30.2	They had those humps where they stored up water so they could just go and go.
0:35.2	So why not give it a shot?
0:38.3	In Major Henry Wayne was sent on a Navy supply ship to Egypt to get some camels.
0:44.4	He was one of the army's best horse traders.
0:47.5	And so he haggled good deals in the sooks of Alexandria and the stables of Smirna and
0:53.1	headed back home with 33 camels.
0:56.8	He seemed to have a good eye for the animals.
0:59.4	They turned out to be strong and healthy.
1:02.1	And they made it across the Atlantic and down around Florida and across the Gulf to Texas.
1:06.8	Great shape.
1:08.5	Trip took about three months.
1:11.1	But Major Wayne had less of an eye for people.
1:14.4	He'd brought six Egyptians and a couple of Turks along with him.
1:18.4	So they could teach the army about the ways of camel training and riding in husbandry.
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