Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1981 (open access)

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.
Date: 1982
Creator: Couzzourt, Jim
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1979 (open access)

The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 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: March 1, 1979
Creator: Alexander, Rocky
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1913 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1913

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 5, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany (open access)

Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany

Collection of Texas and Mexican folklore, including "folk tales, folklore in journalism, reflections on the lore of the past, and some analyses of folklore generally" (inside of the front cover).
Date: 1978
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1915 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1915

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 3, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. FORTY-FOUR, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1920 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. FORTY-FOUR, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1920

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 16, 1920
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. FIFTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1920 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. FIFTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1920

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 24, 1920
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1978 (open access)

The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 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: October 26, 1978
Creator: Alexander, Rocky
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 (open access)

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 Coming West. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1904 (open access)

The Coming West. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1904

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 29, 1904
Creator: unknown
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
Coyote Wisdom (open access)

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 Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. TWENTY-FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1919 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. TWENTY-FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1919

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 5, 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THREE, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1919 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THREE, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1919

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 4, 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. ONE, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1919 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. ONE, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1919

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 20, 1919
Creator: unknown
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 Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1921 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1921

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 4, 1921
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTIETH YEAR, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1916 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTIETH YEAR, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1916

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 14, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. FORTY-TWO, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1921 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. FORTY-TWO, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1921

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1921
Creator: unknown
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. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THIRTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1920 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. THIRTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1920

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 12, 1920
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. TEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1921 (open access)

The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. TEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1921

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 19, 1921
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1908 (open access)

The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1908

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 7, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1908 (open access)

The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1908

Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 31, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History