Editing Setting pole (section)

===American West===
[[File:2004NickelKeelRevUnc.tif|thumb|Setting poles propelling Lewis and Clark's keelboat on the back of the 2004 [[Nickel (United States coin)|U.S. Nickel]]]]
Setting poles were used widely on the rivers of the 18th and 19th century American West to propel [[keelboat]]s.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Riley| first = Franklin Lafayette| title = Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society| publisher=Mississippi Historical Society| location=[[Oxford, Mississippi]]| volume=VII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0wUAAAAYAAJ&q=setting+pole+barge&pg=PA482| date = 1903}}</ref>{{rp|482}} The 1804 [[Lewis and Clark]] expedition relied on setting poles to propel their [[barge]] on the [[Missouri River]]. They brought six purpose-built setting poles, each eighteen feet long and capped with iron on the bottom, though they ended up losing some and replacing them with dog-[[travois]] poles taken from an abandoned Native American camp.<ref name=Mussulman>{{cite web |last1=Mussulman |first1=Joseph |title=Flagship: Keelboat, Barge or Boat? |url=http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/496 |website=Discovering Lewis & Clark |accessdate=19 June 2018 |date=April 2014}}</ref>