Edgar Buchanan
Judge Roy Bean
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- 1. The Judge of Pecos Valley Sep 1, 1955
- The Judge captures a train robber and gives him to the Texas Rangers.
- 2. Family Ties Sep 8, 1955
- A judge brings his own version of the law to the Old West town of Langtry, Texas.
- 3. The Horse Thief Sep 15, 1955
- The townspeople are angry when a local rancher is in jail after being accused of stealing horses.
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 · 1903. Judge Roy Bean dies. 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...
Dec 17, 1972 · The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: Directed by John Huston. With Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs, Fred Brookfield. In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.
Oct 30, 2023 · Despite his unorthodox style, Judge Roy Bean was re-elected justice of the peace time and again, almost every year until his last election in 1902. He died in his bed in Langtry on March 16, 1903, after falling ill in San Antonio.
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.”
In 1896, Judge Roy Bean made national headlines by setting up a boxing match in Langtry. Because Texas had outlawed boxing, he scheduled the heavyweight fight between Robert James Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher on a sandbar on Mexico’s side of the Rio Grande, just south of Langtry.
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.
Aug 29, 2022 · Despite his creative perception of the law, Judge Roy Bean is remembered as the man for the job—the one who didn’t follow the rules, but knew the law of the land well enough to introduce his own brand of justice, or, “Law West of the Pecos.”
The legend of Judge Roy Bean developed across the desolate regions of southwestern Texas in 1882, when he was nearly sixty. A shrewd businessman, Bean capitalized on the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad by establishing a saloon-courthouse at a settlement called Vinegarroon and later at nearby Langtry.
Jul 22, 2015 · To cope with the lawless element the Texas Rangers were called in, and they needed a resident justice of the peace in order to eliminate the 400-mile round trip to deliver prisoners to the county seat at Fort Stockton. The commissioners of Pecos County officially appointed Roy Bean justice on August 2, 1882.
