Who is known as the "Hanging Judge"?

We are in Del Rio, Texas for this week. We are visiting Sandi's Aunt Edie & Uncle Jerry and seeing the sights around town.

We spent yesterday touring downtown Del Rio and a natural spring that comes up in town. We went out and saw the Amistad Dam which holds back three rivers, the Rio Grande, the Pecos and the Devils river. The dam is shared by Mexico and USA. The surface area that the Amistad Reservoir covers is approximately 65,000 acres. Believe me it is huge!

As to the title - Who is known as the "Hanging Judge"? That would be Judge Roy Bean. But in reality he never hung anyone. The harshest sentence that he ever handed down was expulsion. In the case of a horse thief, he would fine him everything that he owned including his horse and gun, then expel him from town with the threat of a noose if he ever came back. We visited the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center in Langtry, TX. There was a cactus garden beside the center with lots of different kinds of cactus, including one called candelilla that produces wax, that I had never heard of before.

We also saw the place where the Pecos River flowed into the Rio Grande River above the Amistad Dam. There sure is a lot of water here.