"[Sonnichsen] has the good sense and technical skill to mingle fact and legend in a realistic, quietly humorous manner. . . . Roy Bean, ruffian, justice of the peace, and showman extraordinary, emerges from the book as neither sage nor clown, but possessing to an interesting degree the characteristics of both".-Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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A well-known historian of the American Southwest, C. L. Sonnichsen is the author of I’ll Die Before I’ll Run: The Story of the Great Feuds of Texas (1962) and the editor of Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars (1986). both reprinted as Bison Books.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO most of the male passengers on the Southern Pacific westbound from San Antonio to El Paso used to perk up a little as they approached the high bridge over the Pecos River. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Roy Bean, San Antonio, Jersey Lily, Del Rio, Dan Stuart, New Mexico, Eagle's Nest, United States, Major Bell, Rio Grande, Sam Bean, Southern Pacific, West Texas, San Diego, New Orleans, Las Cruces, Pecos River, Los Angeles, Peter Maher, Lily Langtry, Judge Falvey, San Gabriel, State of Texas, Captain Oglesby, Joe Dwyer New!
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FIFTY YEARS AGO most of the male passengers on the Southern Pacific westbound from San Antonio to El Paso used to perk up a little as they approached the high bridge over the Pecos River. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
law west, wagon yard Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roy Bean, San Antonio, Jersey Lily, Del Rio, Dan Stuart, New Mexico, Eagle's Nest, United States, Major Bell, Rio Grande, Sam Bean, Southern Pacific, West Texas, San Diego, New Orleans, Las Cruces, Pecos River, Los Angeles, Peter Maher, Lily Langtry, Judge Falvey, San Gabriel, State of Texas, Captain Oglesby, Joe Dwyer New!
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- The Pecos River (Rivers West) by Frederic Bean on 7 pages
- Robin Hood by Sumita Roy on page 208, and Back Matter
- Robin Hood (New Method Supplementary Reader. Stage 1) on page 208, and Back Matter
- San Antonio (A Downtown America Book) by Sally Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- With the Makers of San Antonio by Frederick Charles Chabot in Back Matter
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- Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman by Leon C. Metz on page 178, and Back Matter
- Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore (Publication of the Texas Folklore Society) by Francis Edward Abernethy on page 35
- Entertainers (True Tales of the Old West, Vol. 9) by Charles L. Convis on page 51
- Texas Folklore Society, 1909-1943: Volume I (Publication of the Texas Folklore Society) by Francis Edward Abernethy on page 227
- Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) by Francis Edward Abernethy on page 13
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