The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1919 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1919

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 15, 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1909 (open access)

The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1909

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 3, 1909
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1912 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 12, 1912
Creator: Hardy, J. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 30, 1911
Creator: Barnes, E. B. & Hardy, J. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1909 (open access)

The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1909

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 12, 1909
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. TWENTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, January 2, 1920 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. TWENTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, January 2, 1920

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 2, 1920
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THIRTY-EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1920 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THIRTY-EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1920

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 1920
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. FOURTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1919 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. FOURTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1919

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 19, 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1916 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 3, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1911 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 19, 1911
Creator: Barnes, E. B. & Hardy, J. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1911 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 15, 1911
Creator: Hardy & Jackson
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
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. 25, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1911 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 6, 1911
Creator: Hardy & Jackson
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. FORTY-FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1916 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. FORTY-FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 21, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. Twenty-Eighth Year, No. One, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1914 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. Twenty-Eighth Year, No. One, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 19, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-THREE, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1921 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-THREE, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1921

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 28, 1921
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1911 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1911

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 14, 1911
Creator: Barnes, E. B.
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 (open access)

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 Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. FORTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1916 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. FORTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 19, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1983 (open access)

The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1983

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 10, 1983
Creator: Moesch, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas and Southwestern Lore (open access)

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
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. FORTY-FOUR, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1916 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. FORTY-FOUR, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 14, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. EIGHTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1915 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. EIGHTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1915

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 15, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1914 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 23, 1914
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History