Wild West town of Langtry slowly riding into the sunset
LANGTRY — When a town has more historical markers than families, the handwriting is on the wall. For the dozen hardy souls who remain in this remote settlement made famous by a certain Old West judge, there are few illusions about the future.
“If it hadn’t been for that old reprobate Roy Bean, there wouldn’t be a town of Langtry,” said Jack Skiles, 83, who was born and raised here, but soon may be moving on.
More than a century after his death, Bean remains enigmatic, a meld of fact and Wild West fiction, a figure who still draws 40,000 tourists a year to the museum at the Langtry visitors center.
Many decades ago, Skiles, author of “Judge Roy Bean Country,” interviewed elderly people who had been Bean’s contemporaries during his reign as the self-declared “Law West of the Pecos.”
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Great Texas lore for those of us into that stuff. 
