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The Tycoon From Buffalo Part I: The Life and Times of William G. Fargo

By Jacek Wysocki - July 15, 2002

The grand mansion built by the tycoon from Buffalo, one of the city's wealthiest leading men, a founder of Wells Fargo and American Express, and the family who once lived there.

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