Even its name is the stuff of legend: Judge Bean was infatuated with the famous British actress Lillie Langtry ... to lionize than an old rascal like Roy Bean. Perhaps so. Perhaps not.

Many decades ago, Skiles, author of “Judge Roy Bean Country,” interviewed elderly ... long-distance infatuation with English actress Lillie Langtry added an odd wrinkle to his rough-hewn ...

Langtry has an outsized place in Texas history, and it is due to the personality of one man. Judge Roy Bean was a big fish in a little pond. Two movies embellished the justice of the peace's life ...

So went the saying in unsettled West Texas—until the day in 1882 when Roy Bean became a justice of ... He greatly admired British actress Lillie Langtry, and often wrote her, pleading with ...

Judge Roy Bean died of natural causes in 1903 and is buried in Del Rio beside his son. Lillie Langtry finally visited Langtry in January of 1904, 10 months after the judge’s death.

Hired on the fly to lay down the law in a lawless land, Judge Roy Bean practiced his own brand ... Jersey Lilly” after his favorite actress Lillie Langtry. Referring to a Texas book of statutes ...

a figure who still draws 40,000 tourists a year to the museum at the Langtry visitors center. Many decades ago, Skiles, author of “Judge Roy Bean Country,” interviewed elderly people who had ...

If Judge Roy Bean can apologize ... Snake River Rufus Krile with lead just because he put a hole in a Lily Langtry poster. Bean, with head bowed, approaches the wives and says: “I understand ...

His sixty-fifth book zeroes in on the real-life obsession of Judge Roy Bean—one of nineteenth-century Texas’s most colorful jurists—with the British actress Lillie Langtry. Roy & Lillie ...

As the self-proclaimed “Law West of the Pecos,” Judge Roy Bean served up hard liquor and frontier justice more than a century ago in Langtry, a rough and ready railroad town about 200 miles ...

Judge Roy Bean, a Western legend frequently referred to as “The Hanging Judge,” was quite an eccentric. A Visit with the Ghost of Judge Roy Bean | | salemnews.com Skip to main content ...