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ROOTS
The FinTech Cowgirls
5th Generation Working Ranch
Est. 1850
| New Tracks Ranch
| Oklahoma, Indian Territory
| Foreign Travels
| Dripping Springs
Our Family Roots trace even further than the ranch, also known as
‘New Tracks Ranch’
Before we got to Texas,
ROOTS
The FinTech Cowgirls
5th Generation Working Ranch
Est. 1850
| New Tracks Ranch
| Oklahoma, Indian Territory
| Foreign Travels
| Dripping Springs
Our Family Roots trace even further than the ranch, also known as
‘New Tracks Ranch’
Before we got to Texas, our family settled in the state of Oklahoma, also originally known as 'Indian Territory'.
Our ancestors, members of Native American tribes of Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek and The Seminole arrived in Oklahoma during the historical 'Trail of Tears'. An unbearable journey for 60,000 plus Native Americans, who were marched across the southeastern United States. Also known as
The Indian Removal Act of 1830.
This forced displacement of our people took place from 1830-1850.
Later on 'The Homestead Act of 1862' had been put in place by President Abraham Lincoln during The Civil War to increase land ownership and settlement.
The majority of occupants of this land belonged to The 5 Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and The Seminole.
By 1887, the members of Congress passed The Dawes Act.
Andrew Jackson "negotiated" the removal of treaties and land, which later on lead to
'The Land Rush' in 1889.
The Native Americans who survived 'The Trail of Tears' had settled upon their lands in southeastern Oklahoma in 1834,
in 1889 The Indian Appropriations Act was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison.
The Choctaw conceded first, The Creek agreed under submitting to state laws as long as they could remain on state lands.
The Cherokee third, originally upheld their lands by The U.S. Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia. But President Jackson didn't acknowledge the recognition of the Cherokee Nation.
The Chickasaw were the fourth, freely elected to depart from their lands and paid the Choctaw to settle upon a portion of lands.
The Seminole, the last who did not go down without a fight, known as The Seminole War. The most costly, bloodiest Indian fight in U.S. history.
The Seminole in The Everglades never surrendered.
Other Plains Tribes that were relocated included The Shawnee, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Cheyenne, Kickapoo, Delaware, Caddo, Kiowa, Wyandot, Quapaw, and Seneca.
On April 22, 1889 The Oklahoma land rush occurred in the town known today as
Purcell, Oklahoma, where my dad's side of our family are from.
This is where the term 'Boomers' and 'Sooners' come from. Also what then became known as 'The Boomer Movement'.
"BOOMER! SOONER!"
This is where my people reclaimed their land back from Congress and US Government rulers.
50,000 people arrived to try their luck in staking their claim to 12,000 acres of land in The Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
The Sooners:
Those who entered the land early, and woke in time to lay claim to the unoccupied lands.
The Boomers:
Those who entered the lands at the legal set time.
**Boomer Sooner to my alma mater, The University of Oklahoma!**
The New Tracks Ranch: History
Ezekiel Nance, the founder of the town of Kyle, Texas owned property on this ranch.
To this day, is of the 3rd largest existing working ranches in the state.
The history goes back to The Civil War Era, and The Alamo.
Santa Anna’s right-hand man is buried out on the property, along with many soldiers on both sides of the war.
The ‘Well-House’, sources an original source outlet of water which was utilized during the war.
The railroad, a few miles into the town of Kyle, worked with the ranch to help facilitate gunpowder to supply soldiers during The Civil War.
Still in operative use today, the ‘Well-House’ also housed a Native American. The Native American prior to living here, had never lived in a modern house before.
In result of the new ways of life and challenges in acclimating to modernized facilities, the house caught fire.
Still, despite the damage to the house after the fire, the house was successfully restored to its original structure.
Fast-forward to The Spring of 2023
My husband, Brandon Baucom, and I got to experience the real wild west, living #RanchLife out on
The New Tracks Ranch for the past year.
We quickly humbled ourselves on modern life’s conveniences, as we experienced the old original ways of living in a house built before electricity and industrial machinery.
Daily manual gates, a 10-minute commute just after closing the last gate of The Ranch,
we learned what it really means to be FinTech Cowboys & FinTech Cowgirls.
It's not all horseshoes and wildflowers,
but the Wild West it has a way of growin’ on ya’.
The highlight of each day, the start and end of our days, did not go unnoticed by our greeters and miniature donkeys we soon called our friends.
The miniature donkeys, a family of 5, have all been resilient protecting our land against wild hogs, rattle snakes, coyotes, mountain lions… oh my. Hell, I practically grew up with them as a child where we would spend our holidays ‘Christmas at The Ranch’ every year with Mimi and Grandpa David.
We didn’t need alarm clocks out there.
(regardless of if the internet even worked the first 3 months).
We woke up to the crow of the roosters and the rise of the morning sunrise that went on for miles.
Out there, the world was far away, and the seasons were felt.
The lessons learned humbled us daily.
Despite the weather no matter how cold or hot even when the A/C went out, we found true grit got us through.
Not exactly ideal environment to live with someone for the first time, but ironically enough we got engaged a few months later just after the triple digits finally broke in August.
After 5 mobile A/C units, 2 heat blankets, one broken windshield, and a lost draw with a pack of wild hogs…
The best season in Texas blossomed once more.
An ocean of bluebonnets and a yellow brick road of wildflowers shined a light to the end of our days at
The Ranch.
The Texas bluebonnets and donkeys waved us goodbye one last time as we arrived in the town, we both grew up in, where we met each other at the altar.
Dripping Springs, Texas.
All to spite the odds.
Turns out, The Ranch gave us an abundance of gifts we couldn’t physically see until our time out there had ended. After saving our money for a year, living the #RanchLife, we got to put majority of it into our new chapter of life together. The rest, however,
We cashed our chips in to Paris.
The best part though, was getting to show the ropes of foreign travel to my new husband Brandon.
We’ll always have Paris… The Capri blue ocean,
The Swiss Alps, Monte Carlo casinos, and a mountain of Spaghetti.
I am a firm believer in always remembering where you come from, but never being afraid to go the distance to find ourselves.
I’ve been all over the world and back again, and never thought I’d be the one to re-plant my roots in the house that built me.
That’s the funny thing about life,
it bucks you off the horse only to get back up and take it by the horns.
Life takes you to unexpected places…
Love brings you home.
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