You won't find a more real

“A professor with a PhD in English and tenure at a major university once said to me, ‘I never realized Daniel Boone was a real person; I thought he was a creation of folklore.” – Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography.

In 1975, at the newspaper office of Arkansas State University, I heard two early-20-somethings talking about the movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.

From the comments, I determined the yoots thought Bean was a fictional character. I walked over and said, “What part of Texas are you from?”

One yoot said, “Uh, Little Rock.”

“I said, “Oh. Far East Texas.” I then gave enough information so the yoots understood the inaccuracies if their previous statements.

One said, “You mean he was a real person?”