Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I manaaki te whanau Erskine i etahi manuhiri rongonui, tae atu ki a William Bollaert FRGS (1840), Ferdinand von Roemer (1845<unk>1847), me Frederick Law Olmstead (1857). Whai muri i te hoko a te whanau Erskine i te ranch i nga tau 1870, i tukuna tetahi waahanga o te whenua ki a Edith Kermit Carow, te wahine tuarua o Theodore Roosevelt. I te Pakanga Paniora-Amerika, i eke a Roosevelt i runga i te hoiho a El Capote, "Seguin", i te
Te Pakanga o San Juan Hill (1898). He maha atu nga hoiho mai i El Capote i whakamahia e te 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry ("Roosevelt's Rough Riders") ano hoki.