Many myths have become legends all because they weren’t myths at all….
And What about Judge Roy Bean? He's real! Born 1827 - Died March 16, 1903. "The Law West of The Pecos!" The Judge's Grave is located at the Whitehead Memorial Museum
at 1308 South Main Street
Del Rio, Texas 78840
(830) 774-7568
John Wesley Hardin was born May 26, 1853, in Bonham, Texas. He was so mean he once shot a man just for snoring. Hardin was shot to death in El Paso on August 19, 1895, by a man he had hired to kill someone else.
Once quoted as saying" This is as good a day to die as any".. Cherokee Bill, March 17, 1896, as he stepped into the courtyard at Fort Smith & saw the gallows. Born at Fort Concho, Texas, on Feb. 8, 1876. Dead at 20 yrs old.
Jesse JamesBorn Sept. 5, 1847. Murdered by Robert Ford Apr. 3, 1882. or was he? NOPE! He died of natural causes in 1952 at the age of 104 in Granbury, Texas. He lived out his life as J. Frank Dalton. His Headstone reads "CSA Jesse Woodson James. Sept. 5, 1847-Aug.15, 1951. Supposedly killed in 1882."
Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865?), tended bar at a Granbury, Texas saloon long after he was officially dead, as John St. Helen, who confessed to the capital crime in the late 1870s. After escaping the Feds with the help of his co-conspirators, he made his way to Texas through a sympathetic South. He is not buried here, because after his death, St. Helen was mummified and displayed in traveling shows until 1972, when the mummy vanished.
