Collector Spotlight- Longstride

December 2023

Hello group, it’s an honor to be selected for member of the month, I got into arrowhead hunting as a teenager, we had permission to hunt part of the JB White site along the Little River just a few miles from my home here in Elevation Texas, my dad was into arrowheads but didn’t hunt anymore, he bought me the book ” A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians” by Sue Turner and Thomas Hester that helped me to understand what we were finding, tools, debitage, waste flakes, preforms, how to age an arrowhead as well as tips on flint knapping.

I moved to the family farm in ’88, cut myself out five acres and started finding flint chips and arrowheads, been here 35 years now finding no more than 10 arrowheads total, found thousands of waste flakes, and the horizontal cairn, there are three springs surrounding the hill we live on, I had permission to hunt one of them years ago and there was some good stuff that came from there, Paleo to historic, the one closest to me was dammed up in the 50’s to make a 1000 acre lake, pretty sure that’s where the main site was where 3 creeks come together and a sweet water spring , the other is a bog, never found anything there but beaver dams and a boggy swamp, more on that later.

Spent most of my life working in the powersports business, semi-retired now focusing on completing my house and running a small homestead, three kids grown and on their own, an eight year old daughter, and one grandson, For fun we like fishing, boating, hiking, camping, bicycling, motorcycling, generally anything outdoors. We live in a part of southern central Texas called the Post Oak Savanna, it’s a yaupon thicket with multiple rivers coming together.

To keep myself entertained I play with blacksmithing, stone carving, culinary arts, ham radio, fixing up antique Volkswagens and motorcycles.

I’m proud to be a registered Chickasaw Citizen descended from original dawes roll enrollee’s, have a knack for flint knapping as well as other native crafts, a love for the outdoors and helping people.​

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