Seven years ago, Vic Payne was offered a deal he couldn’t resist. For several years he had been driving from his ranch in Cody, Wyoming, through a small town named Meeteetse and noticed— and admired—an old building on the town’s main street. During one of those drives, he pointed to the Meeteetse Mercantile building, which had fallen into disrepair, and said to his wife Angie, “I love that building.” Months later, Payne purchased it, knowing that he and Angie could transform the historic structure into something wonderful. They had worked on similar ventures in the past—restoring an historic home and
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