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1857: The Lean Llamas that Appeared at New York’s Fat Cattle Show

Posted: 15th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Cows and Cattle Stories
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On December 15, 1857, 42 llamas arrived in New York City on the Panama Railroad Company’s brig E. Drummond under the command of Captain Crippen Chapman (try saying that fast). The llamas (they were probably alpacas, but the New York press called them llamas) were owned by French naturalist Eugene Roehn and consigned to James I. Fisher & Son of Baltimore.