"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote in message
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> "Jacquie" > wrote in message
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>> Ah..Ha...That is what must have happened to the camels in the AZ
>> Desert...Maybe the NA had a feast...LOL. They were planted her as
>> transportation for the Army in 1854...when they closed the forts they
>> just left the camels behind...they disappeared
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> That is the origin of a law that was on the books in Arizona for many
> years (may still be there, for all I know) that supposedly made it a crime
> to "shoot a wild camel!"
>
> MaryL

Just to keep myself "honest," I checked this old story out on snopes.com.
They report that the law is *not* on the books in AZ (although they leave
the door open to the possibility that the law may have existed at one time):
http://www.snopes.com/legal/arizona.asp

MaryL