# Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation--And Created a Legend - Hardcover

by **Joe Pappalardo** (Author)

**A thrilling true saga of legendary Texas figure Judge Roy Bean and his brothers**―**and their violent adventures in Wild West America.**

Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them.

The Beans chase their American dreams as the nation reinvents itself as a coast-to-coast powerhouse, only to be tested by the Civil War. During their saga, the brothers become soldiers, judges, husbands, guerillas, lawmen, entrepreneurs, refugees, fathers, politicians, pioneers and - in Judge Roy Bean's case - one of the Old West's best known but least understood scoundrels.

Using new information gleaned from exhaustive research, Joe Pappalardo's _Four Against the West_ is an unprecedented and vivid telling of the intertwined stories of all four Bean brothers, exploring for the first time how their relentless ambitions helped create a new America.

### Author Biography

JOE PAPPALARDO is the author of the critically acclaimed books _Red Sky Morning:_ _The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F__;_ _Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History; Sunflowers: The Secret History_ and _Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight_. Pappalardo is a freelance journalist and former associate editor of _Air & Space Smithsonian_ magazine, a writing contributor to _National Geographic_ magazine, a contributor to _Texas Monthly_, and a former senior editor at _Popular Mechanics_. He has appeared on C-Span, CNN, Fox News and television shows on the Science Channel and the History Channel.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.31 x 9.51 x 6.5 IN

**Publication Date:** November 26, 2024

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