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His name was worth millions to developers during the great course-building boom of the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, thus assuring his projects of choice tracts of land and big budgets.

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Google, for what it was worth, favored a famous painter of wildlife scenes beaver dams, heron hideaways with the same name.

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