“…By now everyone knows about the Koch brothers’ efforts to spend a fair chunk of their millions on defeating President Obama and reshaping American politics in the image of their oil extraction-friendly version of libertarianism.
But Bill Koch, the other billionaire Koch brother, has a different plan for his money. A large-scale, private recreation of an old West town:
There’s a new town in Colorado. It has about 50 buildings, including a saloon, a church, a jail, a firehouse, a livery and a train station.
Soon, it will have a mansion on a hill so the town’s founder can look down on his creation.
But don’t expect to move here — or even to visit.
This town is billionaire Bill Koch’s fascination with the Old West rendered in bricks and mortar.
It sits on a 420-acre meadow on his Bear Ranch below the Raggeds Wilderness Area in Gunnison County.
It’s an unpopulated, faux Western town that might boggle the mind of anyone who ever had a playhouse.
Its full-size buildings come with polished brass and carved-mahogany details and are fronted with board sidewalks and underpinned by a water-treatment system.
A locked gate with guards screens who comes and goes.
Koch’s project manager has told county officials that the enclave in the middle of the 6,400-acre Bear Ranch won’t ever be open to the public.
It is simply for Koch’s amusement and for that of his family and friends — and historians.
It is the ultimate repository for his huge collection of Western memorabilia…”
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Bill Koch Building Private Cowboy Town ‘For His Huge Collection Of Western Memorabilia’.
