The Johnson-Sims Feud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Johnson-Sims Feud write by Bill O'Neal. This book was released on 2010. The Johnson-Sims Feud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Johnson & Sims families were pioneer ranchers, settling in the same region--Lampasas & Burnet counties--in the dangerous years before the Civil War. After the War, Billy & Nannie Johnson & Dave & Laura Sims establish large ranches in adjoining counties in West Texas. At the turn of the century the two families united in a marriage of 14-year-old Gladys Johnson & 21-year-old Ed Sims. Several years later a nasty divorce ensued due in part to Gladys willfulness & Ed's drinking. More trouble followed over custody of their two children & Gladys took matters into her own hands.....
Texas Ranger
Texas Ranger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texas Ranger write by John Boessenecker. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Texas Ranger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times bestseller! “Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure story, told with grace and authority by a master historian of American law enforcement. Frank Hamer can rest easy as readers will finally learn the truth behind his amazing career, spanning the end of the Wild West through the bloody days of the gangsters.” --Paul Andrew Hutton, author of The Apache Wars To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the “villain” of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now, in Texas Ranger, historian John Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamer’s good name and prove that he was, in fact, a classic American hero. From the horseback days of the Old West through the gangster days of the 1930s, Hamer stood on the front lines of some of the most important and exciting periods in American history. He participated in the Bandit War of 1915, survived the climactic gunfight in the last blood feud of the Old West, battled the Mexican Revolution’s spillover across the border, protected African Americans from lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan, and ran down gangsters, bootleggers, and Communists. When at last his career came to an end, it was only when he ran up against another legendary Texan: Lyndon B. Johnson. Written by one of the most acclaimed historians of the Old West, Texas Ranger is the first biography to tell the full story of this near-mythic lawman.
Snyder and Scurry County
Snyder and Scurry County - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snyder and Scurry County write by Scurry County Museum. This book was released on 2012. Snyder and Scurry County available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything is bigger in Texas. From ranches that cover more acres of land than Rhode Island to 10-gallon hats, monster belt buckles, and heart-attack barbecue, even the most remote corners of the state are bold, proud, and full of character. Scurry County is one such place. Following trails blazed by Comanche chief Quanah Parker and the US Army, settlers began moving to this part of West Texas in the 1870s. The town of Snyder was founded as a trading post on Deep Creek, which was made famous when buffalo hunter J. Wright Mooar shot a white buffalo there in 1876. Believed to be sacred by many Native American tribes, white buffalo are rare--only one out of every 10 million. Like the white buffalo, the town of Snyder is an anomaly, a strange combination of tradition and transition. Families who have farmed and ranched here for generations live in close proximity to an increasing transient population of oil field workers, college students, engineers, and electricians. Cattle still graze where buffalo once roamed, but today, many of their former pastures are filled with futuristic wind turbines.
Early Settlers of the Panhandle Plains
Early Settlers of the Panhandle Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Settlers of the Panhandle Plains write by Norman Wayne Brown and Sarah Bellian Foreword by Chuck Parsons. This book was released on 2013. Early Settlers of the Panhandle Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The panhandle plains were Texas's last frontier, barren lands populated by hostile Comanche and outlaws attempting to outrun civilization. It was Texas Ranger and frontier scout Jim Jackson who first saw potential in the region. Jackson accompanied Col. Ranald Mackenzie into unsettled Kent County in 1875. He climbed a mountain at Polar to witness a sea of tall grass and a good stream of water. This was good news for Jackson's friends and relatives in Coleman County. Many chose to leave the crowded range and move their cattle herds west. Those who answered the call of the wild were Elkins, Mann, Brown, Overall, Sharp, Wallace, and a host of others. They were the point riders who took the challenge of opening Kent, Garza, Crosby, Lynn, Borden, Dawson, Mitchell, Fisher, Scurry, Stonewall, and Nolan Counties to permanent settlement.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library of Congress Subject Headings write by Library of Congress. This book was released on 2013. Library of Congress Subject Headings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
