The US Army Cavalry started out on horseback but a couple of units, one based in El Paso, took another approach. That's how camels came to roam the Southwest.
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6/17/2009: It was in the late spring of 1867 that General Terry discovered the perfect site from which to protect the overland trail connecting the stream of settlers from Minnesota to Montana. On a little hillock, named Bear's Den, which overlooked the Sheyenne River in the southeast corner of present day North Dakota, Terry established Fort Ransom; naming it in honor of brevet Major General Thomas E.G. Ransom of the U.S. Volunteers.