About the Book

      Judge Roy Bean’s dream of meeting the beautiful and talented Lily Langtry comes true in these fictitious stories of the famous western judge. He could now feel that his existence was worthwhile. Many hardships in the past had presented Judge Roy with seemingly insurmountable threats, but the crafty old wild west character always managed  to survive although sometimes barely escaping disaster and death.
      These stories tell of a number of exciting adventures that involved Judge Roy, his friend Preacher Isaac and his favorite mount named Jake the mule. His life there in Langtry, situated on that small, desolate mesa  overlooking the Rio Grande, was more or less international because in the late 1800's at this location, there seemed to be no border between the USA and Mexico, especially in this Godforsaken wilderness west of the Pecos River. Outlaws, bandits, cowboys and goat herders wandered across the Rio Grande at will. No one thought of this scarcely populated country as the USA, but only as Texas and there was no reason why persons should not cross the river back and forth as they pleased.    
      The completion of the railroad a few years before the turn of the century, hardly did anything to civilize the Langtry area. It sometimes provided excitement sporadically in the form of train robberies that are mentioned in the stories. At times railroad employees were killed and at other times robbers were killed and Judge Roy inevitably became involved in ministering justice according to the law. Judge  Roy was the sturdy, rough and determined old critter who provided the much needed Law West of the Pecos.

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