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100 1 O'Neal, Bill,|d1942-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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245 14 The Johnson-Sims feud :|bRomeo and Juliet, West Texas
style /|cBill O'Neal.
250 1st ed.
264 1 Denton :|bUniversity of North Texas Press,|c[2010]
264 4 |c©2010
300 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) :|billustrations, map.
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490 1 A.C. Greene Series ;|vno. 9
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Introduction to a blood feud -- Billy Johnson, cattle
baron -- Dave Sims, cattle baron -- Gladys and Ed -- E.C.
Sims vs. Gladys Sims -- Storm clouds -- Tragedy in Snyder
-- The search for revenge -- Assassination and retribution
-- Aftermath and redemption -- Rest in peace.
520 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
jury watching the shootout through a window. An attempt
against Billy Johnson failed, but a three-man team
shotgunned the widely respected Cullen Higgins. Texas
Rangers and other lawmen caught one of the assassins,
extracted a confession, and then prompted his "suicide" in
a Sweetwater jail cell.
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aO'Neal, Bill, 1942-|tJohnson-Sims feud.
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