urn:taro:ttu.sw.00105 El Capote Ranch: An Inventory of Its Records, 1830-1917 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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April 2003 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Abel Ramirez, April 2003. Finding aid written inEnglish Tue Jul 22 15:22:22 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00105 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the El Capote Ranch Records, 1830-1917 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, August 1998 Descriptive Summary El Capote Ranch (Tex.) El Capote Ranch Collection, 1830-1917 and undated Records and activities of El Capote Ranch in Gonzales County, Texas. S 1000.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box (0.3 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

The Capote Ranch refers to Jose de la Baume's ranch originally located 45 miles northeast of San Antonio. Jose, a French immigrant, had built a log cabin which was later relocated and restored at the Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas, in 1975. It was provided by Wallace and Maurice Harrell of the Harrell Cattle Company.

Located in South Texas, Gonzales County was created in 1836 and organized in 1837. It was named after Coahuila y Texas Governor Rafael Gonzales. Its county seat is Gonzales. The area was among the first to be settled by an Anglo-American settlement known as the DeWitt Colony late in the 1820s. It main economy is agribusiness.

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains photocopied probate records (1840-1847) from Gonzales County, Texas, which detail properties and their values from several wills, photocopied abstracts (1845-1917) dealing with the six leagues of land known as the El Capote Ranch in Gonzales County, photocopies of correspondence, financial records, diaries, and maps to the El Capote Ranch.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Harrell, Wallace Baume, Jose de la Places Capote Farm El Capote Ranch (Tex.) DeWitt Colony (Tex.) Gonzales County (Tex.)

Collection Accession number(s): 98-0298-B and unknown

Gifts, 1998

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 1998.

 Preferred Citation

El Capote Ranch Records, 1830-1917 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Moellering, Arwerd Max. A History of Guadalupe County, Texas. Thesis (M.A.), University of Texas, 1938. Carlson, Paul H.Inventory of County Records, Guadalupe County Courthouse, Seguin, Texas. Austin, Texas: Archives Division of Texas State Library, 1979.

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Block Ranch Papers, 1885-1994 and undated Michael Erskine Papers [microfilm], 1830-1913 Collection Inventory Correspondence 1 1 Personal, 1845-1913 and undated Financial Documents 1 2 Promissory Notes, 1872-1883 Legal Documents 1 3 Abstracts to Capote Farm, 1845-1917 1 4 Deed Records, 1844-1877 1 5 Land Grants, 1844-1899 and undated 1 6 Probate Records of Gonzales County, Texas, 1840-1845 1 7 Will, 1834 Literary Production 1 8 Biographical Material and Field Notes, 1830-1879 and undated 1 9 Diaries and Account Books, 1862-1863 1 10 Journal, 1854 1 11 Untitled Typescript, undated Scrapbook Material 1 12 Maps, undated