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By Douglas Martin / The Bulletin
December 11, 2011
Judge Roy Bean, the 19th-century Texas justice of the peace and saloonkeeper, called himself “the law west of the Pecos.” Not until the 1960s was Bean’s legend challenged — by Billy Sol Estes.
Estes was a glad-handing wheeler-dealer who used cash from his $100 million agricultural empire to....
