It's hard to be very specific about any dates or events early in the life of Texas Guinan. She loved publicity and frequently improvised facts about herself when she felt they made better stories than the truth. She was born in Waco, Texas, but likely not on a ranch as she often claimed. She was active in vaudeville and theater, and was in many movies (often as the gun-toting hero in silent westerns, more than a match for any man). In the prohibition era, Tex's talents for entertainment and self-promotion came together for a successful career as the owner and hostess in night clubs and speakeasies, where she made certain everyone had a good time.
The character Guinan, bartender hostess of the Ten Forward lounge on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) played by 乌比·戈德堡, was named after Texas Guinan.
In 2004, 麦当娜 was set to play her in a biographical movie of her life, "Hello Suckers". However, the project was indefinitely shelved.
Notorious in the eyes of the feds, who wanted to stop her flagrant violations of Prohibition laws, she fervently denied that her joints sold liquor despite abundant evidence to the contrary. She avoided lengthy time behind bars and had all charges subsequently dropped because the feds could not prove she owned the routinely raided clubs. The Depression took a real bite out of her profits and she passed away in 1933, not the wealthy girl she used to be.
Was future journalist/producer Lowell Thomas's Sunday school teacher when Thomas was a boy in Victor, Colorado. They remained lifelong friends even after her latter-day notoriety.
Met her first husband, John J. Moynahan, newspaper cartoonist for Rocky Mountain News, at the home of her cousin, Katie Hoban, in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
Her family resided in Waco, Texas, at least until 1891. Texas, her sister and three brothers were all born in Waco, Texas, between 1882 and 1891.
Her mother, Brigid Duffy, was 101 years old when she died in 1959. Her father, Michael Guinan, died on May 14, 1935 aged 79 years old.
Had three brothers (William Guinan, Walter Harry Guinan (died in infancy), and Thomas Guinan) and one sister (Pearl Guinan).
Following her death, she was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City. Her family donated a tabernacle in her name to St. Patrick's Church in Vancouver, British Columbia for Father Louis Forget's attentions during her last hours.
She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.