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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bill O'Neal |
ISBN: | 9781574412901 1574412906 9781574414752 1574414755 |
OCLC Number: | 644642381 |
Description: | xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
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. |
Series Title: | A.C. Greene series, 9. |
Responsibility: | Bill O'Neal. |
Abstract:
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.
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