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http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/roy_beans_saloon.jpg“Roy Bean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Bean) gave cold-blooded killers, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves no mercy. ‘Court’s in session,’ he would announce, and then delivered his sentence without pausing: ‘To be hanged by the neck until dead.’ As each trial ended, he would serve up cold beer all around; his courtroom was also his saloon.”From*The American West*by Dee Brown, 1995.
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