About an hour before this flyspeck of a town and a large collection of historic documents were to be auctioned off Wednesday afternoon, auctioneer Tommy Williams reflected on the fickleness of the business. “Something that’s this unique, it’s hard to predict how things will turn out,” he said. In this case, things didn’t turn out at all. Just before 4 p.m., when the auction was scheduled to begin, Williams stood in front of the Custer-themed collection of buildings and announced that there would be no auction. “The reason is very simple,” Williams said. “There is nobody that has registered today. Is it still for sale? The answer is yes.”...
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