Otto Esche, a San Franciscan merchant, imported Bactrian camels from Central Asia to sell at auction. Many of these died in transit; perhaps the camel in the picture predicted its fate. Those that survived went to Julius Bandmann, who trained them and sold them on to mining companies as beasts of burden. | Source: In James A. Harvey III. “The History of the Army Camel Corps.” Army Sustainment, May–June 2016, online repr. U.S. Army, April 28, 2016. https://www.army.mil/article/166054/the_history_of_the_army_camel_corps.Download Original File
