Hello! I think that my father (William "Bill" Raymond Travelli/Buckskin) was around during this time, and that Bruffy was a good friend of his. I remember a Bruffy who came to Reno during the early 1950s, who stopped and visisted with my father and mother, and who was on his way to the University of Nevada, Reno, to pull his son out of school, since all he did at the time was party and not concentrate on his studies! I was a small girl at the time, but I do remember the conversation. Also, I think that my father dated Ida Bruffy. I would love to contact any of the Bruffy family that might remember my dad or his family...I am an only child, trying to put together a Travelli/Buckskin genealogy for my daughter. Please, if anyone has any information, please contact me directly.
My father and his brother Jim used to sit in the evening and talk about their younger days in Mineral Hill, and Eureka, etc.,
talking about dances, the ranches, etc. My father's sister,
Hattie Carletti Clark, and his brother, Jim Buckskin, have passed away, as has my father, but I have no early history of Mineral Hill and my family. Their mother was a Margaret "Maggie" Hanes/Cortez Travelli/Buckskin. Complicated, but since she was Shoshone and English or Irish, we believe that she or her mother took the name Cortez from the town they were either living in or close to at the time. I have NO information at all, and actually visited Eureka a year to two ago, and found nothing. We visited the Alpha Ranch, which my family lived at for some years, and almost got to Mineral Hill...it was early spring, and the mud and snow were too much for our car at the time. HELP!!!

Linda Newbrough (Travelli/Buckskin)
Anacortes, WA
lmnewbro@msn.com