We happened to catch the first little bit of the new Little House on the Prairie miniseries last night. (BTW-Is anyone else not really impressed with how annoying the characters are?) While we were watching, part of the Ingalls family (apparently they wrote Carrie out) witnessed a large group of Native Americans being resettled. Maya and Sage were really interested in how they were carrying their things, so we built these more-than-slightly anachronistic sets of travois for the only horse-type things we had in the house. I'm sure real Native Americans would have rather died than use such goofy looking pack animals, but they did illustrate the point nicely, and show how you could carry a lot of things even without wheels...