You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Langtry did not have a jail so all cases were settled by fines. The fight lasted only 1 minute 35 seconds but the resulting sport reports spread his fame throughout the United States. The original owner of the land who ran a saloon had sold 640 acres (2.

According to legend Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. Phantly Roy Bean Jr.