Richard--You need to read Travis's 1901 article, "Impressions of British Golf" to understand his great respect for the golf course in the UK. The origins of his ideas about golf course design included his summer of 1900 month playing UK courses.
The Travis Society has no record of Travis involvement at East Lake, If there is legitimate documentation of his involvement there, I would like to see it.
Re posts by Tom Doak and TPaul. As Tom Doak indicated, the Rees Jones firm did major redesign of the Equinox course, though the Travis routing remains basically the same. I do not know if there are any remaining green sites that retain the original Travis green surfaces.
TPaul refers to the 1899 design of "Equinox". Knowing Tpaul's commitment to detail, I'm sure he misspoke. Equinox was designed in 1925 and opened in 1927. Ekwanok CC was designed in 1899 by John Duncan Dunn, perhaps with some assistance from Travis.
I totally disagree with Montesano's assessment of Travis's lack of emphasis on the drive.
Travis's career in golf design began relatively late in his life. From 1896 to 1916, his golfing life was consumed by his unparalleled amateur golf career, though he played a role in the design of a few courses prior to his retirement from competitive golf in 1916. He did not devote his life, full-time, to golf design until 1916, at age 55. From 1916 through the early 1920s, he was in great demand, throughout the U.S. and Canada. Basically, his design career spanned 10 years, from 1916 through 1926. His health declined sharply in 1926. During the summer of 1927, when he attended the opening of his course at Equinox and examined the construction of his course at the CC of Troy, he was in very bad shape. Hard to know how his career might have gone, if health issues had cut short his life in August 1927.