Langtry occurs as town located in Val Verde County, Texas, United States, notable as a location of Judge Roy Bean, the "law west of the Pecos". Inside 1990 Langtry had the people of 145.

A town was originally established inside 1882 by Southern Pacific, as a grading camp named "Eagle Nest". It was late renamed for George Langtry, an engineer and foreman working on the railroad. Roy Bean before long fallowing arrived & install the tent saloon on railroad land.

Around 1884 a post office opened, and within 1892 the town was reported to have a general store, two saloons (one of the children Bean's "The Jersey Lily", known as fallowing a Jersey actress Lillie Langtry who was unrelated to George Langtry), and a railroad depot, although most of the people of 150 sleep in collapsible shelter.

When Bean's dying inside 1903 the town began to decline; in the 1920s Southern Pacific moved its facilities away from a town, & a town people experienced dwindled to L, and so to Forty per 1970s. Tourism to the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center in Langtry continues to keep the town alive. within the Seventies, touristry began to pick higher, in a share, thanks to renewed concerned generated per motion picture, A Life & Days Of Judge Roy Bean, starring Paul Newman.

Image:Old_langtry_tx.jpg|Judge Roy Bean, a `Law West of the Pecos,' holding court at the old town of Langtry, Texas around 1900, trying a horse stealer. This building was courthouse & saloon. There is no more lawman in the neighborhood at that period.

Image:Roy bean jersey lilly.jpg|A holidaymaker visits a preserved Jersey Lilly saloon around 2004.

Langtry, Langtrey and Langtree

English Cognomen: habitational title from either either site within Devon, Oxfordshire, & Lancashire known as Langtree, from Old English lang, yearn ‘long’, ‘tall’ + treow ‘tree’. Lexicon of U.s. Last name, Oxford University Click, ISBN 0-19-508137-4