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Author | : Jack Skiles |
Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780896723696 |
A lively account of a harsh but beautiful landscape and the characters who have inhabited it. Learn the truth about Judge Roy Bean and a few other heroes and rogues.
Author | : C. L. Sonnichsen |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789123917 |
Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825-1903), self-styled “Law West of the Pecos,” was an eccentric American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas. According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. Southwestern historian and folklorist, C. L. Sonnichsen, lived near Judge Bean’s house for several years and decided to pen this biography, first published in 1943, owing to his belief that it was “high time for somebody to look into his history and see how a Roy Bean ever came to be at all.” Roy Bean: Law West of the Pecos examines Judge Bean’s legendary, as well as factual background and makes for a fascinating read.
Author | : Everett Lloyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Carl R. Green |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Justices of the peace |
ISBN | : 9780894905919 |
This book covers the life and colorful escapades of the all-American rascal, self-made judge Roy Bean. Judge Bean, who dabbled in a number of careers during his lifetime, many of them on the shady side of the law, enjoyed a reputation as wide spread e spread in his own time as today. This is a true account of his story for reluctant readers.
Author | : Charles Leland Sonnichsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Bean, Roy |
ISBN | : |
Traces the life and adventures of one of the most famous law men in frontier West Texas.
Author | : Ruel McDaniel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Photoplay editions |
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Author | : Texas. Travel and Information Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Judge Roy Bean Historic Site (Tex.) |
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Author | : Ethan Hawke |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307962334 |
An unforgettable fable about a father's journey and a timeless guide to life's many questions—from Ethan Hawke, four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting. A knight, fearing he may not return from battle, writes a letter to his children in an attempt to leave a record of all he knows. In a series of ruminations on solitude, humility, forgiveness, honesty, courage, grace, pride, and patience, he draws on the ancient teachings of Eastern and Western philosophy, and on the great spiritual and political writings of our time. His intent: to give his children a compass for a journey they will have to make alone, a short guide to what gives life meaning and beauty.
Author | : Stephen Harrigan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292759517 |
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Author | : Larry L. King |
Publisher | : Viking |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
King blends the personal, the political, and the picaresque.