“Snapshot Saturday”
![A traditional woodsman using a tomahawk to dig a hole.](https://traditionalblackpowderhunting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Digging_A_Hole.jpg)
The aroma of fresh-turned earth filled the air as a traditional woodsman dug a hole for a station camp’s angled ridge pole using the blade of his tomahawk. Damp, loose soil in the sequestered hollow piled up quickly. By nightfall the shelter’s ridge and rafters awaited a brush covering. Old Northwest Territory, one hill east of the River Raisin, 1794.