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Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell, a native of Kaskaskia, Ill, was a fur trader and trapper who through industry, good fortune, and trading became sole owner in 1864 of the largest single tract of land owned by any one individual in the United States. He founded the First National Bank of Santa Fe, New Mex. and invested $250,000 to help build the Texas Pacific Railroad. Dynamic, charitable, and lavish, he was one of the great builders of the American West. He was born Sept. 14, 1818, and died in quiet retirement on July 25, 1875 at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
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