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Title: The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941
Subjects: Camping Camping -- Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Travois Can also be used at times with advantage, as it was used byour red brothers of the wilderness. Fig. 217 shows a dogharnessed to a travois, made of two shaft poles; the harnessconsists of a padded collar similar to those used in NorthernQuebec for sled dogs, and a cincha of leather or canvas andtraces of rope or thong. Figs. 215 and 216 show a rig madeby one of my Boy Scouts; the material used was the greensapUngs cut in the woods, the traces were made of rope manu-factured from the roots of the tamarack tree, so also was thecord used to bind the parts of the frame together. The hooksto which the traces were fastened were made of wire nailsbent over, and the staples to which the collar was fastenedby thongs to the shaft were made of wire nails, the heads ofwhich were ground off by rubbing them on stones; the nailswere then bent into the proper curve and driven into theshaft in the form of a staple. Fig. 216 shows the same rigwith a leather harness. The American Indian used the
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THE USE OF DOGS—^LVN PACKING 151 travois on dogs the same as they did upon horses and thesudden appearance of game often produced a stampede ofdog travoises, scattering the duffel, including papooses,loaded on the travois. It is not expected that the reader will make every one ofthese contrivances, but if he does he will learn How, and tobe a good woodsman he sJiould know how, so as to be preparedfor any emergency. It is possible to make the whole packfor the dog from birch bark, but however it is made, if itserves the purpose of making the dog carry part of the pack,when you put the bark on the dogs back, you will teach theanimal that there are two kinds of harks; one of which is usefulas a duffel bag, and the other as an alarm. In Alaska and other parts of the far North, as well as inHolland and other parts of Europe, the dog is generally usedas a beast of burden; it draws sleds in North America andmilk carts and market wagons in Holland, but it is notnecessary for us to hve in Ho

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