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Travois Used By Army After Little Big Horn 1876
In the 1870s US troops operating in southern Montana and northern Wyoming relied on the Indian travois to move wounded after battles. Assistant Surgeon J W Williams documented how Dakota and Montana Sioux use ash poles and tepee poles to fashion a bed and frame, enabling long-distance transport over rough terrain to ambulance stations.
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United States Army
Little Big Horn
United States
Montana
Wyoming
J. W. Williams
The
Big Horn
Travois
Williams
Terry
John Gibbon
Gibbon
Dr. Williams
Lieut. G. A. Doane
Custer
Rosebud Creek
Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition,” Commanded By General George Crook
Crook
Rosebud
G. W. Henry
Curtis E. Munn
Fort Fetterman
Wyo
Powder River
Bean
Co. K
2Nd Cavalry