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The town of Buford, Wyoming, population , was sold on Thursday for $900,000. The are two unidentified men from Vietnam. Buford was advertised as the smallest town in the USA. It is between the Wyoming state capital Cheyenne and Laramie. It is on the Interstate 80 road that from New York to San Francisco. The buyers now a gas station and convenience store, a schoolhouse in 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land, and a three-bedroom house. The online for the town started at $100,000 and attracted bidders from 46 countries. The winning bidders to Wyoming for the auction. They had read about the town online.

Buford’s one inhabitant was Don Sammons, aged 61. He bought the town in 1992 to settle in the countryside. He decided to sell his to be closer to his son. Mr Sammons said he would retire from his as the unelected “mayor” of the town. He expressed his at moving on from his home of three , saying: “When the gavel drops and the guy says, ‘sold,’ I might down.” He added: “I'm happy and I'm sad all at once. But I'm more happy than sad because…I can and start the next chapter of my life.” He was surprised at the global in the sale. “I've lived here for more than 30 years and nobody knew it. Now I'm leaving and the world it,” he said.

 

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