Much of West Texas town on auction block
Posted on 01/16/2003 6:47:22 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Much of West Texas town on auction block
01/16/2003
LANGTRY, Texas - Much of the West Texas town where a judge once dispensed justice from a saloon is on the auction block.
The minimum bid on the eBay web site for the Langtry assets is $750,000.
However, online bidders are advised that none of the property directly tied to the legendary Judge Roy Bean is included in the sale.
Bill and Pat Dodd, owners of the Harold T. Dodd estate, possess about 80 percent of Langtry. Harold Dodd owned the entire area before Bean opened court there in 1882.
"They've sold about 100 lots over the years, but there are still nearly 400 lots left and all the acres that surround the town," Richard Nored, who has partnered with the Dodds to try to sell the town, told the Odessa American in Thursday's editions.
Known as "the Law West of the Pecos," Bean was a no-nonsense arbiter who dispensed justice from a Langtry saloon. He was infatuated with an 1800s British actress named Lilly Langtry, and named the town after her. Bean was the town's justice of the peace for 20 years.
The eBay auction includes 228 acres with 399 lots, several old buildings and two cemeteries in the town of about 30 residents, 56 miles west of Del Rio in Val Verde County on the Mexican border. Most of the lots are undeveloped.
Off limits from the sale, however, are the Bean visitor's center and the old saloon.
"When I was growing up, everyone in Texas and most of the world had heard of Judge Roy Bean," said Nored, owner of the Exxon gas station and the Gro Motel in Langtry. "Now it seems like the last few generations have never heard of him."
The land up for auction has been in the family of Pat Dodd's husband for generations.
"He grew up out there, and his ancestor, W.H. Dodd, was Judge Roy Bean's successor," Pat Dodd said.
Nored said he added 10 acres of his own to the offer and encouraged the Dodds to sell the property on eBay.
"I saw a deal about Bridgeville, Calif., for sale on eBay, and it gave me the idea," Nored said.
Years ago, a real estate agent established $750,000 was a fair asking price, said Pat Dodd, adding that the asking price hasn't changed since.
Dodd's family, which has moved to New Braunfels, has lost interest in Langtry and long-distance ownership isn't practical.
"I want to see someone make this little, old West Texas town thrive again," Nored said.
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Lily Langtry.
I'll add a few JRB themes here also, if I can find some more good ones. I just scanned through Google when I grabbed the one in post #1. I think I'll find a few anyway...
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http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/rising/culberson-bean.html
Old West Photo ~ What could have drawn a future president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and a cannibal, Liver Eating Johnson and a hanging judge, Judge Roy Bean, and three gunfighters, Doc Holliday, Morgan Earp, Bat Masterson and two outlaws, The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy and Harry Britton and Ben Greenough together to have their photo taken at a 'gentleman's weekend' at Hunter's Hot Springs, Montana Territory? You tell me, history only knows. This is an 8"x10" framed museum archive quality copy and probably the most intriguing Western History photo, ever found! These are images of who they say they are. Date of image is ca. 1880. INCREDIBLE! |
http://banjo2.virtualave.net/photographs.html
Lillie LangtryThe Jersey LilyThe stage beauty Judge Roy Bean named Langtry Texas after. |
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For those of you that might speak German (I think) or Dutch...
Ein berühmte Persönlichkeit auf Jersey war Lillie Langtry.
Mitte des voriges Jahrhunderts war sie eine Grand Dame der Gesellschaft. Sie war eine bemerkenswerte Persönlichkeit, sie war die erste Frau die ihren Namen für Produkte vermarktete und damit Geld verdiente. Wie kam es dazu ?
Sie wurde 1854 als Emilie Charlotte Le Breton Tochter von William Corbet Le Breton und Emily Davis geboren. Sie war das siebte Kind des Ehepaares, der Vater war der Dean of Jersey und war als Frauenheld bekannt.
Lilly wuchs ohne Zwänge in Jersey auf, die sonst den jungen Damen dieses Jahrhunderts aufgelegt wurden. Reiten, schwimmen und segeln waren ihre Freizeitbeschäftigungen . Als Sie ins Teenager Alter kam und sich für Jungs zu interessieren kam es zum Disput mit ihren Vater, weil der Junge für den Sie sich interessierte ihr Halbbruder war.
Ihr Ziel war es nun Jersey zu verlassen und in London bei der großen Welt zu leben. 1874 heiratet Sie mit 20 Jahren Edward Langtry (26 Jahre) und zog mit Ihn nach London. Die Ehe enttäuschte sie, ihr Mann war am gesellschaftlichen Leben nicht interessiert und sein
http://www.kanalinseln.de/geschichte/lillie.html
"Let me explain what is going to happen, first we're going to give you a fair and impartial trial, then, we're going to take you out back and hang you."LOL! That's JRB. "Here come da judge..."
Yeah, for those who beleive in the validatie of swift justice, Judge Roy was da man.
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