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The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style
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In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued, and Gladys moved with her girls to her father’s luxurious ranch house, where she soon fell in love with famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. One of the best lawyers in West Texas, Judge Cullen Higgins (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s, the Sims family sought revenge. Sims’ son-in-law, Gee McMeans, led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnson’s bodyguard, Frank Hamer, twice, while Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—fired at another assassin. Hamer shot back, killed McMeans, and was no-billed on the spot by a grand …
Date:
August 15, 2010
Creator:
O'Neal, Bill
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1981
Proceedings of the 17th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. Includes the event program, meeting minutes for the April 4, 1981 SWFAS Executive Committee, and the SWFAS by-laws.
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1982
Creator:
Couzzourt, Jim
Object Type:
Book
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The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1978
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
April 13, 1978
Creator:
Wright, Diane
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1974
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
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September 19, 1974
Creator:
Ellington, Benny
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1979
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
April 26, 1979
Creator:
Alexander, Rocky
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1978
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
September 28, 1978
Creator:
Alexander, Rocky
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1980
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
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October 10, 1980
Creator:
Helm, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1976
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
March 18, 1976
Creator:
Groff, Jill
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1981
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
February 6, 1981
Creator:
Helm, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1976
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
December 9, 1976
Creator:
Cornoyer, Paula
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1979
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
October 25, 1979
Creator:
Sandbothe, Sheila & Sentell, Monette
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 1979
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
October 11, 1979
Creator:
Sandbothe, Sheila & Sentell, Monette
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History