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Timber magnates and mine owners deployed armed Pinkertons and strikebreakers as if they were baronial armies.
Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
Branches were soon opened in London and New York by Louis-François' sons to serve Victorian magnates on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually a Cartier grandson married the granddaughter of Worth, the world famous couturier , as if to consolidate the whole international luxury-goods network.
One that escapes that euphemism is Boldt’s Castle, the kind of Gothic folly that magnates liked to dabble in earlier this century.