The Lewis and Clark Trail–Travois Road is a historic site located east of

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, on

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(US 12). It is a surviving stretch of Indian

travois A travois (; Canadian French, from French , a frame for restraining horses; also obsolete travoy or travoise) is a historical frame structure that was used by indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America, to drag loads ov ...

trail followed by

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in their 1805–06 expedition and mentioned in their writings. It was listed on the

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in 1974. and The site is significant for the 1805–06 event, for including "a trail that was very important in aboriginal times", and for its information potential. It seems to have been described by

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, who wrote on May 3, 1806: "...we Continued Still up the Creek bottoms ... to the place at which the roade leaves the atahaCreek and assends the hill up to the high plains: here we Encamped in a Small grove of Cotton trees...". Travois were used by American Indians to transport possessions by means of two long poles slung with a hammock trailing behind a horse or dog. The deep, parallel tracks caused by the dragging poles are still visible today in a quarter-mile (0.4 km) section of the original trail, sometimes called the Nez Perce Trail, followed by the

Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select gro ...

and preserved at this site.

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External links

Lewis & Clark Trail–Travois Road
National Park Service National Register of Historic Places in Garfield County, Washington Lewis and Clark Expedition

See also

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