Ayla was supervising the loading of the two travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

"When that didn't work any longer, I made a travois.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man From High Mountain]

But it was the travois that checked Whinney's descent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

The Servant dropped the travois and turned to face them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

It was a surprise to see him pulling the travois himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Then it was Ayla's turn, and Whinney dragging the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Jondalar asked as they unfastened the boat from the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

He grabbed the travois poles in his jaws and looked at Peregrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Oona the Bow-woman was actually dragging me on a kind of travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreamthief's Daughter]

The man and woman both strained to get the aurochs on the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

They went out, unharnessed the travois, and brought the horses in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Peregrine watched the progress of the whitejackets and its travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

They watched the travois with sharp curiosity, but none approached.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

He was standing around the travois, sniffing at the mantis-like body.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Sherlock made a travois from wood and vine, softening it with pillows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Don't Dream]

They dragged the boat to the icy slope; then Ayla unfastened the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

She went back for Jondalar's pack and then dragged the travois by herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Two more switchbacks and they overran the Flenser Servant and his travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

We started back to Austin with Tom on a travois, but he died a week later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

She was young and resilient and not spending much energy pulling the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doomstalker]

She and Grauel used their swords to cut poles from which they made a travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doomstalker]

She climbed up to Whinney's back, using one of the travois poles to assist her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

After she spread it out for them, she started to untie the load on the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

Dug caught a glimpse of it before Sherlock laid the travois flat on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Don't Dream]

After Ayla removed the travois from Whinney, she decided to take Latie for a ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

They had trouble moving the travois with its widely spaced poles through the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

A hunting dog could also be used to pull the travois, but I saw no evidence of dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

Tulie looked at Ayla and the horse, with the travois and panniers, obviously impressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

Scriber moved slowly toward the end of the pier, pulling the travois from shadow to shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

"Impostors!" he screamed, at the same instant lunging one of his members toward the travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

The taldi mare had hauled me up to my father's doorstep on a crude travois made of brushwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

"You'll have to leave the travois and the horses 'pack loads here, and ride back," Talut said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

I asked Sparkle, who was leading the mule dragging the travois onto which Sleepy was strapped.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Is The Darkness]

The travois acted as a restraining force on the mare, who was more even tempered to begin with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

One of the large figures was pulling the other on a contraption that was more sled than travois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Tower]

Ayla had taken the time to let the horse get familiar with the new idea, and Whinney was used to the travois and trusted the woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

The lengthy poles were also used on occasion to make a travois that could be dragged behind the horses to transport heavy or bulky loads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

If it was a tributary river, they usually plunged into the cool refreshing water, crossing before removing pack basket or travois harness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]