American millionaire William Northrup McMillan fell in love in Kenya after a hunting expedition in 1904.
The seven-footer, 136kg McMillan's fortune was coined through the manufacture of railway freight cars for the American railroad, but it was in ranching that he was to cement his immortality down these shores.
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