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The Judge Roy Bean Saloon in Bristol, Rhode Island. [25] A barbecue restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, is named Judge Beans, and features Texas-inspired recipes. [26] A bar and restaurant on West 56th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City is named the Judge Roy Bean Public House. Judge Roy Beans is the name of a ...
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), a film set in Langtry and starring Paul Newman, sparked new interest in Texas history. Roy Bean appears as a main character in Le Juge, part of the Lucky Luke series. The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border (2008) is a nonfiction book about a reported UFO crash at Langtry in 1955.
Edgar Buchanan played Roy Bean, known as "the only law west of the Pecos." [1] The series was originally broadcast during the 1955 television season. The series was set in Langtry, Texas, and starred Buchanan as Judge Roy Bean, Jackie Loughery as his niece Letty Bean, and Jack Buetel as Jeff Taggert, Bean's deputy.
A shootout follows. Bean, on horseback, chases Gass into a burning building, declaring "For Texas, and Miss Lilly!". Some time later, a train pauses by the town. Out steps Lillie Langtry. She is told the story of Judge Roy Bean and his feelings toward her by Tector, the caretaker of the saloon, now turned into a museum.
In Langtry, Texas, Judge Bean declared himself the "Law West of the Pecos" and ran his court in the town's tiny U.S. Post Office and bar called the Jersey Lilly Saloon. [47] Judge Roy Bean was as famous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as many of the motion picture stars are today.
Judge Roy Bean named the saloon, in Pecos, Texas, The Jersey Lily, which also served as the judge's courthouse, for her, in Langtry, Texas (named after the unrelated engineer George Langtry). [ 174 ] Spurious associations
In 1884, the Langtry community was established, named after George Langtry (an engineer and foreman). It has mistakenly been attributed to being named after British entertainer Lillie Langtry by Judge Roy Bean. [5] [24] In 1885, Val Verde County was organized from Crockett, Kinney, and Pecos counties.
The Jersey Lilly, Judge Roy Bean's saloon in Langtry, Texas, c. 1900. A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers. A saloon might also be known as a "watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina ...