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Item Information       More Content     More by this author     O'Neal, Bill, 1942-     Subjects     Vendetta -- Texas -- Scurry County -- History -- 20th century.     Ranchers -- Texas -- Scurry County -- Biography.     Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Scurry County.     Family violence -- Texas -- History.     Scurry County (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      O'Neal, Bill, 1942-       by title:      The Johnson-Sims feu...       by call number:      976.4731 O58j     Search the Web     O'Neal, Bill, 1942-     Vendetta -- Texas -- Scurry County -- History -- 20th century.     Ranchers -- Texas -- Scurry County -- Biography.     Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Scurry County.     Family violence -- Texas -- History.     Scurry County (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The Johnson-Sims feud : Romeo and Juliet, West Texas style / Bill O'Neal. by O'Neal, Bill, 1942- University of North Texas Press, [2010] Call #: 976.4731 O58j Subjects Vendetta -- Texas -- Scurry County -- History -- 20th century.   Ranchers -- Texas -- Scurry County -- Biography.   Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Scurry County.   Family violence -- Texas -- History.   Scurry County (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century. Series A.C. Greene series ; 9. ISBN:  9781574414752 (pbk.) 9781574412901 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  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. Summary:  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 managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. 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. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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