To: TexConfederate1861
I heard tale that when Judge Roy Bean was dispensing justice out your way judgements were worth at least a bullet, if not a rope.
927 posted on
10/24/2003 4:14:30 PM PDT by
Jim Robinson
(Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND... ANTI-Liberal by GOD!)
To: Jim Robinson
Hehe!
Yes, Ole Judge Roy was an interesting character...He was known as the "Law West of the Pecos" when the areas west of the Pecos River in West Texas was kind of a badlands, where regular lawmen didn't go. There was an interesting movie made about his life with Ryan O'Neal back in the 1970's, but you have to ignore the drama parts. :)
Along that line though, My Grandfather twice removed was a Texas Ranger, and my Grandmother told me the story of how he went to chase a man who stole his horse, came back with the horse, and left the man hanging from a live oak tree.....(Frontier Justice in the 1880's)
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