| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bean, Roy |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  b n |
| DATES: | 1825?–1903 |
| VARIANTS: | Self-styled “the Law West of the Pecos.” |
| American frontiersman in Texas who in 1881 appointed himself justice of the peace and handed down judgments based on one law book and one six-shooter.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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