BS: camel races in Nevada

Subject: camel races in Nevada
From: GUEST,Auxiris
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 11:33 AM

Hello, everyone. Does anyone know about camel races that are apparently held somewhere in Nevada? Just to connect this thread to music, if anyone does indeed have information about this mythical (?) event, are there any songs about it? Thanks!

cheers,

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 11:43 AM

And here is a page about camep breeding in modern America

There have to be songs about this somewhere...

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 11:46 AM

And here is a link I found to an an article I found about the US Camel Corps, in Arizona, back in the days of the Wild West

There's a great movie there to be made...

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 11:49 AM

I don't know about races in Nevada, but I think you may be thinking of Hi Jolly the Camel driver. See HERE about 3/4 down the page. Doesnt' say anthing about races though. Will go back and get the words to the song, and an MP3 site........

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 11:54 AM

Yeah, I bet this is one hell of an event.....I know I' personally walk a mile for a hump.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 12:00 PM

HI JOLLY

Hi Jolly was a camel driver, long time ago
He followed Mr. Bueno way out west - Yee-haw!
Didn't mind the burning sand in that God-forsaken land
And he didn't mind the pretty gals the best.

I'm singin' Hi Jolly, Hey Jolly 20 miles a day, by golly
20 miles before the morning light Wee-chaw!
Hi Jolly, Hey ya Gotta get on my way ya Told my gal I'd be home Sunday night.

Verse 2: There's pretty girls in Alberquerque
'Least that's what they say,
There's pretty gals in Tucumtary too
Woo-hoo!
But honey don't you mind
I won't pay them anytime
'Cause I'm savin' all my lovin' just for you

I'm singin' Hi Jolly....

Verse 3: Old timers down in Arizona tell you that it's true
It's true!
That you can see Hi Jolly's ghost a-ridin' through
Ooooh
When the desert moon is high
He comes riding into sight
Driving 4 and 20 camels over the hill.

I'm singin' Hi Jolly....

from HERE ,
and an MP3 HERE Try looking for Hadj Ali........
oh, yea, LYR ADD

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 12:19 PM

And, here ya go:

http://www.road-shows.com/vccrabout.html

Sorry about no clicky, can never do it right.

This site has all you ever want to know about the camel races.

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: sophocleese
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 12:21 PM

Thanks McGrath, I've seen one movie about the camels in the Wild West but I agree there's still a good movie to be made about it. Not this one

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: GUEST,Auxiris
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 05:10 PM

Well, I was not expecting so much in so short a time... Thanks to everyone. I am sure I shall have some fun with that.

cheers

Aux

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: Sourdough
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 08:48 PM

The camel races are held annualy in Virginia City, the place where Brett Harte and Mark Twain were reporters for The Territorial Enterprise. As you drive in from once side, you pass the spot where young Twain (actually, he was still Clemens) was held up by a highwayman.

Someplace in Arizona, I remember coming upon a town square that had a monument to the Camel Corps. In Benicia (named after the wife of General Vallejo and for a short time the capitol of California) there are the Camel Stables which are open for tour.

About the lyrinc posted above, I think that Jolly, or more likely a corruption of something like Hadj Ali was, was the head of the camel drivers - perhaps it was a famous camel though. Memory fails.

Anyway, as anyone who has been interested in this topic probably knows by now, when the US gave up the idea of using camels, they sent the drivers home to N. Africa and the camels were turned loose. I guess it's lucky they didn't thrive the way the wild donkeys belonging to the moners and the prospectors did. I've almost run down several of those in the Death Valley region. On the other hand, there was the time I came around a corner too fast on a motorcycle in Turkey and scattered a pack caravan of camels carrying pottery. Glad that can't happen here, can it?

Sourdough

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jul 00 - 09:26 PM

Aux, what do you mean, so fast? Took me 4 minutes to find what I was looking for!! Slow, slow, slow!! LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 06:36 AM

"There was the time I came around a corner too fast on a motorcycle in Turkey and scattered a pack caravan of camels carrying pottery."

If you hit a camel when you go too fast round a corner you're more likely to get injured than if you hit a pedestrian. We clearly need more camels on the roads, as traffic calming measures...

Check the links about the Camel Corps from me and Sorcha to find out about Hadji. Apparently the reason given for not bringing in more camels to the USA is that they frightened the mules. Which suggests that American mules must scare a lot easier than mules in the Middle East, who don't give a damn about camels. Or anything else.

And here is a website about what some Australian camels are getting up to these days.

Subject: RE: BS: camel races in Nevada
From: GUEST,Auxiris
Date: 24 Jul 00 - 12:23 PM

Sorcha, I guess I thought the subject might be more obscure than that and it might take a while to get some information. Silly me. . . should have known better!

cheers,

Aux