Texas Ranching
For more details on this topic, see Spade Ranch, Texas.In the ensuing time Ellwood's interest in ranching grew. On a trip to Texas in 1889 he purchased the 130,000 acre (530 km²) Renderbrook Ranch in Mitchell County. In 1891 he purchased an additional 128,000 acres (518 km2) northwest of Lubbock, Texas. He acquired more area in 1902 and 1906 bringing his total holdings in Texas to 265,000 acres (1,072 km2). In all, at its height Spade Ranch and Ellwood's other Texas land holdings encompassed 395,000 acres (1,599 km2).
He built a ten room "cottage" in Port Arthur, Texas which was an authentic copy of a Pompeiian Villa from 74 CE.
Ellwood continued to acquire ranch land until almost the time he died, in Dekalb, Illinois in 1910.
Read more about this topic: Isaac L. Ellwood
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