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One-Man-Town for SALE


The entire town of Buford, Wyoming, is for sale. Buford has a pop­u­la­tion of just one – 61-year-old Don Sam­mons. He’s become quite a celebrity for being the only res­i­dent in the tiny town along I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie. Sam­mons says it’s time to sell off Buford and let some­one else live his lifestyle. Sam­mons moved to Buford with his fam­ily in 1980. He took over a con­ve­nience store, the Buford Trad­ing Post, in 1992 and oper­ated it until the end of 2011, but his fam­ily slowly moved away over the years. Now Sam­mons is left own­ing the 10-acre unin­cor­po­rated town with its own ZIP code. On April 5th, Okla­homa City–based Williams & Williams will start the auc­tion at $100,000 for the acreage, a three-bedroom home, a gas sta­tion, the Buford Trad­ing Post, a 1900s cabin, a garage and school­house built in 1905.

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