Posted: 7/5/2014 1:06:36 PM EDT
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I live in Wylie, TX (NE of Dallas a bit) and was wondering if anyone knows any areas around to do any arrowhead hunting?
I can't necessarily find any good hiking trails around, and I'm wanting to get my wife interested in the outdoors. We have a little hideaway in SE OK where we've gone and she seems to enjoy 'getting something out of it', and I have some friends that go a lot in East TX where I'm from but wondering if anyone knows of any areas around here? Thank y'all in advance. |
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You need to find private land. In Texas, it's illegal to collect artifacts on public land. Most of the stuff found around Wylie would be Caddo variant stuff, like Wichita from the late Archaic. Since they were basically farmers, most of what is found is for growing crops, gathering crops or processing food like nuts. They still made arrowheads it was just not high on their priority list it seems. Grinding stones and small tool rocks are what is found.
Best areas up near Wylie are probably under Lake Lavon now. The Indians stuck to the rivers and streams where creeks entered the river. |
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Thanks so much for the info.
I had no idea it was illegal to collect on public land. So if we were to find anything around a lake area or creek, etc.. we would 'legally' just have to leave it? Terrible... 
We are not too far from Caddo Mills area, I remember going there on a trip when I was in elementary/middle school and again with the scouts. Maybe we'll check out there to start off with |
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Chances are that if you are "treasure hunting" for things like that, especially in East Texas where you run into heavy pockets of artifacts, that you are probably grave robbing and don't know it. Pottery shards and stuff.
On public land you need a permit and permission. It gets complicated especially near water sources as the Corps of Engineers, State of Texas and local government would be interested. |
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Your best luck for finding arrowheads are west of Ft. Worth. That was comanche country and there were lots of battles in the valleys just north of Meridian.
I would highly suggest reading this book. It gives you locations of key battles and outpostings. http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060 |
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Comanche are a recent addition to the Texas landscape. I realize they are romanticized in books and on tv but they were the 19th century equal to MS13 or the Zeta Drug Cartel. They stole everything, never made anything of their own and did not even have a written language. The Comanche, which translates to "The People", pretty much sucked ass and were vile rapists and murderers. I have much more respect for the Apache who had a formal tribal leadership and culture. Caddo and others like the Tonkawa had great infrastructure, complex trade networks and a very civil way of living. They went to war but for good reason.
The Comanche were the worst. Comanche arrowheads would be rare. They switched over to firearms at the first chance they had. Ever met a Comanche? Me neither. Texas Rangers and the like wiped them clean out of Texas and for good reason. You can barely call them human. Like feral hogs. |
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Comanche are a recent addition to the Texas landscape. I realize they are romanticized in books and on tv but they were the 19th century equal to MS13 or the Zeta Drug Cartel. They stole everything, never made anything of their own and did not even have a written language. The Comanche, which translates to "The People", pretty much sucked ass and were vile rapists and murderers. I have much more respect for the Apache who had a formal tribal leadership and culture. Caddo and others like the Tonkawa had great infrastructure, complex trade networks and a very civil way of living. They went to war but for good reason. The Comanche were the worst. Comanche arrowheads would be rare. They switched over to firearms at the first chance they had. Ever met a Comanche? Me neither. Texas Rangers and the like wiped them clean out of Texas and for good reason. You can barely call them human. Like feral hogs. Well tell me how you really feel refidnasb  My family is from mainly Oklahoma, Louisiana, and East TX so stories of all different tribes abound. Reminds me of the tales my Granddad used to tell about the Comanche.
BCV, I have a buddy with a deer lease in Meridian, may see if we can go check out the area some time if he knows any of the local land owners in the area |
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Ever met a Comanche? Me neither. Texas Rangers and the like wiped them clean out of Texas and for good reason. You can barely call them human. Like feral hogs. Quoted:
Ever met a Comanche? Me neither. Texas Rangers and the like wiped them clean out of Texas and for good reason. You can barely call them human. Like feral hogs. I am comanche. Thanks for the charming remarks, very classy. Quoted:
BCV, I have a buddy with a deer lease in Meridian, may see if we can go check out the area some time if he knows any of the local land owners in the area We have a ranch in 5 minutes north of Meridian. Neighbor has a case of arrow heads and artifacts he has found while hunting and what not. Some really cool stuff. another cool thing about the area is it was once an ocean floor so there are tons of fossils everywhere. We have a "mountain" that is full of them. 
Looking over one of the valleys. |
| Areas south of Abilene, particularly Cedar and Buffalo Gap used to have arrowheads. My grandparents property and the old family homestead used to surrender a fairly hefty amount of arrowheads and tools in an old creek bed, but unfortunately we haven't had much luck lately. Honestly not sure how you'd go about asking to get on private property unless some ARF members here would open their property. I'd figure creek beds and areas where water used to be might be a good choice. Our area aparently was a camp along the creek. |
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Well... look like we're off to find some private land.
I did some checking on the interwebs and some have suggested when there are large areas of land for sale, to go walk it and see what you can find. Seem kind of dangerous, I know if my family were selling something and all of a sudden there was some random out there walking around, for sale or not there would likely be a 'fairly unfriendly' confrontation... |
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Well... look like we're off to find some private land. I did some checking on the interwebs and some have suggested when there are large areas of land for sale, to go walk it and see what you can find. Seem kind of dangerous, I know if my family were selling something and all of a sudden there was some random out there walking around, for sale or not there would likely be a 'fairly unfriendly' confrontation... Do not trespass. And a realtor is not going to let you dig on someone's property. |
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Quoted: Comanche are a recent addition to the Texas landscape. I realize they are romanticized in books and on tv but they were the 19th century equal to MS13 or the Zeta Drug Cartel. They stole everything, never made anything of their own and did not even have a written language. The Comanche, which translates to "The People", pretty much sucked ass and were vile rapists and murderers. I have much more respect for the Apache who had a formal tribal leadership and culture. Caddo and others like the Tonkawa had great infrastructure, complex trade networks and a very civil way of living. They went to war but for good reason. Ever met a Comanche? Me neither. Texas Rangers and the like wiped them clean out of Texas and for good reason. You can barely call them human. Like feral hogs. Wow Are you still a member here? |
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Appreciate all the information, off for the weekend to work the lease out in ETX. Going to try and search the creekbeds around there and whatnot for now while I work on finding other areas to search legally My uncle does ALOT of Indian artifact hunting. He might let you tag along. |