Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Na talimalo le aiga o Erskine i ni tagata asiasi iloga, e aofia ai Viliamu Bollaert FRGS (1840), Ferdinand von Roemer (1845<unk>1847), ma Frederick Law Olmstead (1857). Ina ua faatau atu e le aiga o Erskine le faatoʻaga i le 1870s, na tuu atu ai se vaega o le fanua iā Edith Kermit Carow, le avā lona lua a Theodore Roosevelt. I le taimi o le Taua a Sepania ma Amerika, na tiʻetiʻe ai Roosevelt i le solofanua a El Capote, "Seguin", i le Taua i le Mauga o San Juan
(1898). E tele isi solofanua mai El Capote na faʻaaogaina e le 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry ("Roosevelt's Rough Riders").