"Women of Mexico appear in a romantic, if not passionate, light in the memoirs of Colonel Ellis P. Bean the young Tenesseean who blazed a path of military glory in the history of Texas and Mexico of about 1810." Waxahachie Daily Light, Oct. 7, 1914Peter Ellis Bean (1783–1846) was a United States filibuster in Texas and Mexico, and a Mexican revolutionary.Bean was born in Tennessee in 1783. In 1800, at 17 years of age, his father sent him south to t...

"Colonel Bean was in the van of the Anglo-Saxon development in Texas and had a life of highly colored adventure in Mexico...born in Tennessee in 1783...joined the rebels and engaged in guerilla warfare against the Spaniards." -Star Tribune, May 4, 1930"Women of Mexico appear in a romantic, if not passionate, light in the memoirs of Colonel Ellis P. Bean the young Tenesseean who blazed a path of military glory in the history of Texas and Mexico of a...