In 1896, the biggest sporting event in the nation was to be a fight for the heavyweight championship.  But its location was a secret!  Armed Soldiers from Mexico, Arizona, and the Texas Rangers had it stopped, until the "Law West of the Pecos," Judge Roy Bean managed to take it international--sort of.  Learn about Texas ingenuity in Episode 8 of Wise About Texas.

Heavyweight champ Bob Fitzsimmons

Legendary lawman Bat Masterson....no match for a Texas Ranger

Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald...one riot, one ranger.

The old Sanderson depot where Bat Masterson learned to behave himself

Judge Roy Bean, the law west of the Pecos

The Fitzsimmons-Maher fight. On a sandbar in the Rio Grande.