Back in the 1950s, a newspaper editor in Nevada wrote a fake story about a camel race happening in his town as a joke. Eventually, he helped make it a real thing and the annual Virginia City Camel Race was born, which continues to this day.
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JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
Virginia City, Nevada, is a small, historic mining town of under 800 people. These days, it’s mostly a tourist spot, and every year it hosts an extraordinary event – a camel race. That tradition
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