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Phantly Roy Bean Jr. (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.
Nov 16, 2009 · Roy Bean, the self-proclaimed “law west of the Pecos,” dies in Langtry, Texas. A saloonkeeper and adventurer, Bean’s claim to fame rested on the often humorous and sometimes-bizarre rulings ...
Oct 30, 2023 · In the late 1800s, Texas’ unruly Pecos County was overseen by a formidable but eccentric justice of the peace known as Judge Roy Bean. Bean was an unusual choice for the position. Not only was he a saloon owner with no law experience whatsoever, but he was a former outlaw known to have killed multiple men himself.
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Roy Bean (born 1825?, Mason County, Ky., U.S.—died March 16, 1903, Langtry, Texas) was a justice of the peace and saloonkeeper who styled himself as the “law west of the Pecos.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Roy Bean was an eccentric saloonkeeper, adventurer and judicial officer. His claim to fame rested on the rulings he meted out as a justice of the peace in western Texas during the late 19th century.
With the nearest court 200 miles away at Fort Stockton, he quickly became the self-proclaimed “Only Law West of the Pecos.” An unusual sort of “judge” from the beginning, one of his first judicial acts was to shoot up the saloon of a Jewish competitor.
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May 11, 2018 · A New Mexico congressman rammed through a law banning “pugilistic encounters” anywhere in the United States, and the governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, called out the cavalry to keep the fight out of his country, too. Finally, Judge Roy Bean came to the rescue.
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