both built the travois and managed the dogs, sometimes using toy travois to train the puppies. Buffalo meat and firewood were typical travois loads. According...
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Project Travois was a 1966 U.S. Army Nuclear Cratering Group proposal to develop demonstration projects using nuclear explosives for dam construction...
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Inventory/Nomination: Lewis and Clark Trail–Travois Road". National Park Service. and accompanying photos "Lewis & Clark Trail–Travois Road". Lewis and Clark Expedition:...
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for commercial or rescue use. Bobsled Luge Pulk Skeleton (sport) Sled Travois Toboggan (hat) Sled, Sledge, Sleigh, and Toboggan grammarist.com differentiation...
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with unnaturally fast drawing ability and marksmanship, is dragged on a travois by his horse to a way station and restaurant. There, he encounters a pair...
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shoulder or the head. For travel, cradleboards could be hung on a saddle or travois. Ethnographic tradition indicates that it was common practice to cradleboard...
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Mounted search and rescue (section Travois)
Sternberg used travois to move wounded soldiers from the battlefield to a hospital 25 miles away. In very rough field conditions, travois are sometimes...
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might exceed 60 pounds. Women also used dogs to pull travois to haul firewood or infants. The travois were used to carry meat harvested during the seasonal...
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difficult to build than travois but are easier to propel over smooth surfaces. Pack animals, ridden horses, and bullocks dragging travois or sleds require wider...
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nonhuman power sources. The first two-wheeled carts were derived from travois and were first used in Mesopotamia and Iran in around 3,000 BCE. The oldest...
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