TY - BOOK ID - 137951939 TI - The Johnson-Sims feud PY - 2010 SN - 1283109026 9786613109026 1574413481 9781574413489 9781283109024 9781574412901 1574412906 1574414755 9781574414752 PB - Denton University of North Texas Press DB - UniCat KW - Family violence KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Ranchers KW - Vendetta KW - History. KW - History KW - Scurry County (Tex.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137951939 AB - 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 ER -