After Sam fought in the Mexican–American War, he moved out of San Antonio, where his brother Roy joined him. He hauled freight to Santa Fe and then on to Chihuahua, Mexico. Samuel Gore "Sam" Bean (1819–1903), who had earlier migrated to Independence, Missouri, was a teamster and bullwhacker. After getting into trouble in New Orleans, Bean fled to San Antonio, Texas, to join his elder brother Sam. The family was extremely poor and at age sixteen Bean left home to ride a flatboat to New Orleans, hoping to find work. (Novem– June 13, 1844) and the former Anna Henderson Gore. Roy Bean was born circa 1825 in Mason County, Kentucky, and was the youngest of five children (four sons and a daughter) of Phantly Roy Bean Sr. After his death, fictional Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, although he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of whom escaped. According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". Justice of the Peace/Coroner/Notary Public
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