{"product_id":"the-johnsonsims-feud-romeo-and-juliet-west-texas-style-ac-greene-series","title":"The Johnson-Sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet  West Texas Style (A.C. Greene Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 fathers 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 (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s  the Sims family sought revenge. Sims son-in-law  Gee McMeans  led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnsons bodyguard  Frank Hamer  twice  while Gladysby now Mrs. Hamerfired at another assassin. Hamer shot back  killed McMeans  and was no-billed on the spot by a grand jury watching the shootout through a window. 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. Number Nine: A.C. Greene Series\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966224625717,"sku":"ByrdShop_1574412906","price":90.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781574412901.jpg?v=1770557814","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-johnsonsims-feud-romeo-and-juliet-west-texas-style-ac-greene-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}