Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!

We're in a series about one of the best Texas Rangers  to ever wear the badge, the great Frank Hamer, who was brought out of retirement to take down Bonnie and Clyde.

## Recap

In [the last post](https://steemit.com/history/@janton/the-johnson-sims-feud-heats-up) Gladys almost had a shootout with a ruthless bad guy named Gee McMeans. His last name is fitting ain't it?

Yeah they drew guns on each other but the shootout was derailed by the Sheriff showing up. 

Well, her daddy, Billy Johnson, knew that it wouldn't be the last they heard from old grouchy pants McMeans given the insults to his family and now to himself by Gladys.

## Today's story

Gladys's dad was in fear for his daughter's life now but he had a card up his sleeve because you see, he knew of one Harrison Hamer who lived in town, who was working as a part time game warden. 

Harrison was Frank's younger brother and he was also an expert with a rifle and pistol. (Plus he needed a decent job.)

So he agreed to work as their body guard. Harrison and his wife moved into the Johnson ranch house and he accompanied Gladys and Billy whenever they went into town, which was often since Billy was the co-owner of the town bank.

## An unending fight

Ed Sims, Gladys's ex, got married to Gladys's ex-best friend but Ed and Gladys were in a continual fight about visitations and the length of visits and on and on. They really didn't like each other.

Well, one night Billy Johnson left work at his bank and went to pick something up at the drug store and ran right into Ed Sims who was in town to pick up the girls the next morning for their visit. 

But Ed went berserk when he saw Billy.


## Public humiliation was bad Karma

He started screaming at Billy that he'd been turning the girls against him, then pulled his pistol and drew down on him while he accused and belittled him. Billy was unarmed. 

Luckily a Sheriff deputy heard the commotion and popped in and took Ed's pistols.

Billy went on home..shook up, angry, and humiliated from that ugly public scene. When he got home everyone was outraged that Ed had publicly attacked their family name like that and humiliated Billy in public. 

It was an unforgivable act against their honor.

>Here's an old photo of the bank in Snyder that Billy Johnson co-owned. This is about the same year as this part of the story:

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And look, the building is still there today:

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Ol crybaby Eddie may have made one too many insults.  We'll see in the next post.

Thanks for reading folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas

**PS-** Check out this vending machine I found. Well, it's not strictly a vending machine but it's a game like those Crane games where you try to grab a stuffed animal. But this one is in a restaurant and has live lobsters!

They say they're the first lobster games in North America. And they also say they are the #1 lobster game. lol. I guess if they're the only ones out there then they'd also be #1! Anyway here it is:

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How'd you like to service this one sir @glenalbrethsen? I'm assuming the restaurants would furnish the lobsters but you might have to get your hands wet if this thing breaks down.  If anyone wants to buy one here's their website: http://www.thelobsterzone.com.

They claim that these machines are very popular so they're tryin to get people to buy em. They don't give a price though, you gotta call their sales department. lol. My guess is around $10,000.

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