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Judge Roy Bean and His Unrequited Love For the “Jersey Lillie”

by | Feb 2, 2018 | True West Blog

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Somewhere along his wild and wooly way Roy Bean had developed a schoolboy crush on the beautiful English actress Lillie Langtry. He went so far as to nickname his saloon, the “Jersey Lillie,” for the British island where she was born. He claimed to have met her but that was only wishful thinking.  He did write letters to her and insisted that she always wrote him back. He also claimed to have named t


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