Books for gifted children from Royal Fireworks Press, publishers for the gifted education curriculum.

Camels West

Novel

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Camels West is an epic, action adventure based on a real but lit­tle known period in America’s history.

The Day the Alamo fell in 1836, Santa Ana’s soldiers botched the job of killing the Mexican infant, Graciela. But the knife-cut across her throat did take away her voice forever.Now, twenty years later, the United States Congress is depending upon the young woman’s medical skills and courage to help their agent in a tactical experiment using imported camels. The camels are to be transport carriers as he surveys a wagon road along the 35th Parallel from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River.

If all goes well, use of these camels would be the first step in a plan to study, breed and adapt camels at Camp Verde for both long­distance transport and for war. Camels were used successfully by the Persian Army as artillery base carriers, and their reputation as “Gunships of the Desert” was impressive. Camels would be as familiar as the packhorse and donkey on the American frontier and in war! But the plan needed time, and the American Civil War and the railroad ultimately ended the experiment.

The camels, their handlers, the Comanche danger and the trek are all true. It is the sensational story of the exotic camels, and the commitment of a man and a woman to their jobs...and to each other.

US government agent Jeremy McNeal is based on a real person. Graciela is fiction, to round out the story with a romance and to add the dimension of a woman’s emotions. She is a repre­sentation of all the strong women who helped open the West. The herbal medicines and skills ascribed to her char­acter have all been meticulously researched and are accurate.

Phyllis de la Garza is a well-known author who was born in Illinois, lived in Mexico, and now resides in south­eastern Arizona.

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