elk-dog

Updated: June 17, 2025

La Verendrye, and later Lewis and Clark, had found the Indians using horses in the north. The Indians, as we have seen, had learned to manage the horse. Formerly they had used dogs to drag the travois, but now they used the "elk-dog," as they first called the horse.

Emerson Hough - The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West