Historic Buildings - Huffaker Ranch House Traditional Cache
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Historic Buildings - Huffaker Ranch House
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In 1858 George Huffaker and Lew Drexler brought 500 head of cattle
into Truckee Meadows, and took up the place now occupied by
Huffaker's ranch. In 1860, the Pioneer Express established an
office here, and two years later the station was given a
postoffice, with Granville W. Huffaker as postmaster, and Wells,
Fargo & Co. succeeded the Pioneer Express. For the next ten
years Huffaker's was the most prominent stage station in the
county, and the ranch was one of the principal "gathering points''
for the bachelor ranchers to come and give rein to their jolly
natures. When they got tired of dancing they raced horses, or
talked about the "Confederate Cross-roads.''
Finally these amusements grew tame, and they had lots of fun over
land squabbles, and George Alt pegged away at Ferg with both loads
of a double-barreled shotgun, and, although '' Ferg '' was only
fifteen feet away, it was a clean miss. But Ferg stayed with them
until he received a charge in the leg, and the boys found more
charm in dancing.
In 1871 Huffaker's was the terminus of the V. & T. R. R., and
quite a shipping point for farm produce and wood, which were taken
to Virginia. A large store was built, and carried on a lucrative
business. An enterprising blacksmith located at the mouth of the
canyon and set up his shop with the mountains for walls and the sky
for a roof. A stranger passing one day asked Huffaker if there was
a blacksmith shop near. George said: "Well, yes; you're in the shop
now—but it's four miles to the anvil."
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