03299cam a2200421 i 4500 2003226756 TxAuBib 20250307120000.0 240709s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024009245 9781250287540 hardcover 1250287545 hardcover TxAuBib rda Pappalardo, Joe, author. Four against the West : the true saga of a frontier family that reshaped the nation--and created a legend / Joe Pappalardo. True saga of a frontier family that reshaped the nation--and created a legend. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Empire Plants Itself upon the Trails" -- "Our Inheritance Will Be Turned to Strangers" -- "Plainly, the Sheep and the Wolf Are Not Agreed upon a Definition of Liberty" -- "Nations Reel and Stagger on Their Way" -- "There Is Only One Thing in the World Worse than Being Talked About.". "A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers--and their violent adventures in Wild West America. Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos." He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them. The Beans chase their American dreams as the nation reinvents itself as a coast-to-coast powerhouse, only to be tested by the Civil War. During their saga, the brothers become soldiers, judges, husbands, guerillas, lawmen, entrepreneurs, refugees, fathers, politicians, pioneers and--in Judge Roy Bean's case--one of the Old West's best known but least understood scoundrels. Using new information gleaned from exhaustive research, Four Against the West is an unprecedented and vivid telling of the intertwined stories of all four Bean brothers, exploring for the first time how their relentless ambitions helped create a new America"-- Provided by publisher. 20250307. Bean family. Bean, Roy, -1903. Bean, Roy, -1903. Family. Brothers Southwestern States Biography. Outlaws Southwestern States Biography. Soldiers Southwestern States Biography. Frontier and pioneer life Southwestern States. Southwestern States History 19th century. Southwestern States Biography. TXKIP