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What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
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