"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...