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Texas and Southwestern Lore
Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date:
1927
Creator:
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coyote Wisdom
This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date:
1938
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. ONE, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 18, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1908
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 12, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1908
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 4, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 26, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 29, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 26, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 1, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. FIFTY-TWO, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 11, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 15, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. THIRTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 10, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 19, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 16, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 28, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. SEVEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 1, 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 8, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 28, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 1, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 30, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1908
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 14, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 16, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. TWENTY-ONE, Ed. 1 Friday, November 6, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 6, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History