Author: Johnson County History Book Committee (Tex.)
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ISBN: 9780881070453
Category : Johnson County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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Category : Johnson County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Category : Johnson County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Bill O'Neal
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412906
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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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.....

Author: John W. Davis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806183802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.

Author: Frank M. Johnson
Publisher: Frank M. Johnson
ISBN: 9780615877082
Category : Montgomery County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A definitive history of Montgomery County's involvement in the War between the States and the men from that county who served in the military of the Confederate States of America

Author: Will McClain Winton
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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The purpose of this bulletin is to furnish to residents of the county and to other interested a constructive guide to the geology of the county, its influence on general development, and its possibilities for exploitation -- Introduction.

Author: Bruce Levine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195147626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Levine sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South.

Author: Weldon I. Hudson
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Category : Johnson County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Given in memory of Edward and Billie Madeley, 1999.

Author: Frank White Johnson
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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