Editing Langtry, Texas (section)

==Popular culture==
* ''[[The Westerner (1940 film)|The Westerner]]'' (1940) is a film featuring [[Walter Brennan]] as Judge Roy Bean and [[Gary Cooper]] as a fictional interloper. It repeated the myth of the town's being named for Lillie Langtry.
* ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' (1969) has a passing reference to Langtry as a place where Freddie Sykes ([[Edmond O'Brien]]) had been active as a desperado many years before the events depicted the film.
* ''[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]]'' (1978), a TV miniseries about Lillie Langtry, was produced by Britain's [[London Weekend Television]], also related the myth of the Texas town's name.
* ''[[Judge Roy Bean (TV series)|Judge Roy Bean]]'' (1955–1956), a Western television series set in Langtry, but filmed in Pioneertown, California, aired in syndication with [[Edgar Buchanan]] in the title role.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", ''[[West Texas Historical Association|West Texas Historical Review]]'', Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 109-110</ref>
* ''[[The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean]]'' (1972), a film set in Langtry and starring [[Paul Newman]], sparked new interest in Texas history.
* Roy Bean appears as a main character in ''[[Le Juge]]'', part of the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' series.
* ''The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border'' (2008) is a nonfiction book about a reported UFO crash at Langtry in 1955.
* The town plays a major role in R.A. Lafferty's science-fiction novel ''[[Fourth Mansions]].''
* Langtry is mentioned in the Cormac McCarthy novel ''No Country for Old Men''. Langtry could be the hometown of the novel's protagonist Llewelyn Moss.
* Langtry and the surrounding area have long been favorite hunting grounds for legions of amateur and professional herpetologists looking for a variety of reptiles endemic to the area.
* The episode "A Picture of a Lady" in the Western series ''[[Death Valley Days]]'' depicts Judge Roy Bean renaming the Texas town of Vinegaroon as Langtry in honor of Lillie Langtry. Stars [[Peter Whitney]] as Judge Roy Bean, and his friend Doc [[Paul Fix]]
* Langtry inspired the fictional town of Langtree in the video game ''[[Wandersong]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lootpots.com/articles/an-interview-with-wandersong-creator-greg-lobanov-16012019/|title=An interview with Wandersong creator Greg Lobanov|date=16 January 2019}}</ref>