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2. Streets of Laredo (novel) - Wikipedia

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   OCLC. 40347807. Preceded by. Lonesome Dove. Followed by. Dead Man's Walk. Streets of Laredo is a 1993 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the second book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the fourth and final book chronologically. It was adapted into a television miniseries in 1995.

3. Roy Bean - Wikipedia

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   After his death, fictional Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, although he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of whom escaped. Early life [ edit ] Roy Bean was born circa 1825 in Mason County, Kentucky , and was the youngest of five children (four sons and a daughter) of Phantly Roy Bean Sr. (November 21, 1804 ...

4. Lower Rio Grande Valley - Wikipedia

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   The Lower Rio Grande Valley ( Spanish: Valle del Río Grande ), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1] The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas ...

5. Streets of Laredo (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent.It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).

6. Timeline of Laredo, Texas - Wikipedia

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   1790 - Population: 708. 1821 - Laredo becomes part of independent Mexican Empire. [4] 1840 - Laredo becomes capital of the Mexican insurgent Republic of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Federalist War. [4] 1846 - Laredo taken by U.S. Texas Rangers during the Mexican–American War. [5] 1847 - U.S. forces occupy town. [5]

7. Laredo (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   Laredo. (TV series) Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1965–67, starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border around Laredo in Webb County in South Texas. The program presented 56 episodes in color. It was produced by Universal Television.