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1 "film classics...": Jay Hyams, The Life and Times of the Western Movie (Bromley, Kent [U.K.]:

Columbus Books, 1983).

1-2 Polk background: Reid Smith, "Hamilton Place," in his Majestic Middle Tennessee (Prattville,

Ala.: Paddle Wheel Publications, 1975), pp. 17-18; Mrs. Frank M. Angellotti, The Polks of

North Carolina and Tennessee (Columbia, TN: James K. Polk Memorial Association, 1984),

pp. 31-34, 76; George Washington Polk, "Some Reflections and Reminiscences," manuscript,

Southern Historical Collection, The Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., pp. 32-33a.

2 Susan Rebecca Polk: Agnellotti, op. cit., page 4.

2 "the hotel in which...": Polk, op. cit., pp. 33a-35.

2 Brazos River episode: Ibid., page 40.

2 "an attempt...": Ibid., page 39.

3 "some of the heaviest...": Ibid., pp. 45-46.

3 "attracted numerous adventurers...": Ibid., page 46.

3 "a rather large structure...": Ibid.

3 Vinegaroon: Ibid.; Denis McLouglin, "Vinegaroon" [sic], in his Wild! Woolly: An

Encyclopedia of the Old West (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975), page 533.

3-4 conditions leading to Bean's appointment: Polk, page 46a; C. L. Sonnichsen, Roy Bean: Law

West of the Pecos (New York: Macmillan, 1943; rpt. Old Greenwich, Conn.: Devin-Adair, n.d.

[197 ]), pp. 81-83.

4 Bean's move to Vinegaroon...dance hall episode: Ibid., pp. 83-84.

4 "fine the convicted party...": Polk, p. 46a.

4 bridge worker's death case: Ibid.

4-5 Falvey's scrutiny of Bean's court: Sonnichsen, page 90.

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5 "Roy Bean's court...": Polk, page 46b.

5 Nobody enjoyed the recital...": Ibid.; see also Sonnichsen, "Bean, Roy," in The Handbook of

Texas, ed. by Walter Prescott Webb, Vol. I (Austin: The Texas State Historical Association,

1952), pp. 129-30; McLoughlin, "Bean, Roy," pp. 38-39; Dan L. Thrapp, "Bean, Roy," in his

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Vol. I (Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988; rpt.

Lincoln: The Univ. of Nebraska Press [Bison Books], 1991), pp. 79-80; for an entertaining

account enlivened with imaginary dialogue, see Ruel McDaniel, Vinegaroon [sic]: The Saga of

Judge Roy Bean, "The Law West of the Pecos" (Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1936).

5 dangers of railroad work: Ibid.

6 silver spike ceremony: Polk, p. 46.

6 "There were very few people present...": letter, George W. Polk to sister [probably Mary Polk

Yeatman], January 15, 1882 [mis-dated: actually 1883], Yeatman-Polk Collection, Box 26,

Folder 8, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN

6 Polk manuscript: Angellotti, op. cit., pp. 76-77.

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