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A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers -- and their violent adventures in Wild West America.. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them.. The Beans chase their American dreams as the nation reinvents itself as a coast-to-coast powerhouse, only to be tested by the Civil War.
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JOE PAPPALARDO is the author of the critically acclaimed books and . Pappalardo is a freelance journalist and former associate editor of magazine, a writing contributor to magazine, a contributor to , and a former senior editor and current contributor to . He has appeared on C-Span, CNN, Fox News and television shows on the Science Channel and the History Channel.
