The Johnson-Sims Feud - Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style

Informationen zum Autor BILL O'NEAL is a prolific author of western history, the "Best Living Nonfiction Writer" as selected by True West magazine in 2007. He speaks frequently to historical groups and has appeared in documentaries on TBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel, TNN, and A&E. O'Neal is the author of more than thirty books, including The Johnson County War (2005 NOLA Book of the Year), The Regulator-Moderator War , Historic Ranches of the Old West , Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters , and Cheyenne, 1867-1903 . He is retired from teaching at Panola College. Klappentext Provides the story of an early twentieth century feud. 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. 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. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916! Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on a square teeming with shoppers. Zusammenfassung Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Neal, O&apos, Bill O'Neal
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9781574414752
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-475-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: A.C. Greene; A.C. Greene
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous