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273 Preface 1. Clara Sneed, “Because This is Texas: An Account of the Sneed-Boyce Feud,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 72 (1999): 78. 2. Ibid. 3. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 25, 1912. The New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch closely followed the developing story as did the Winnipeg Saturday Press and the Manitoba Free Press in Canada. 4. Ibid., February 29, 1912. 5. Amarillo Daily News, February 26, 1913. Chapter One 1. James D. Hamlin, The Flamboyant Judge: The Story of Amarillo and the Development of the Great Ranches of the Texas Panhandle, a biography as told to J. Evetts Haley and William Curry Holden (Canyon, Texas: Palo Duro Press, 1972), 95; Fort Worth StarTelegram , February 14, 1912. 2. New Handbook of Texas, Ron Tyler, ed., s.v. “Sneed, Joseph Perkins,” by Norman W. Spellmann (Austin: Texas State Historical Society, 1996), 5:1123–24. 3. John M. Sharp, “Experiences of a Texas Pioneer,” and D. H. Snyder, “Made Early Drives,” both in J. Marvin Hunter, ed., The Trail Drivers of Texas (n.p.: Cokesbury Press, 1925; repr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), 721–29, and 1029–31. 4. In a 1933 interview, Tom Snyder recalled finding the dying Sam Bass, Waco News Tribune, December 3, 1933. 5. Tyler, s.v. “Boyce, Albert Gallatin,” 1:681; Hunter, “Colonel Albert G. Boyce,” Trail Drivers of Texas, 672. 6. Tyler, s.v. “Wilbarger, Josiah Pugh,” 6:965; J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Repr., Austin: Statehouse Books, 1985), 7–14. Wilbarger County, Texas, was named in honor of Josiah Wilbarger. 7. J. B. Pumphrey and R. B. Pumphrey, “The Pumphrey Brothers’ Experience on the Trail,” Hunter, Trail Drivers of Texas, 27–30; Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 277–79. 8. Hunter, “Colonel Albert G. Boyce,” 672–73; Tyler, s.v. “Boyce, Albert Gallatin,” 1:681. 9. T. R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans (New York: Macmillan, 1968), 393–409; Ernest Wallace, Texas in Turmoil: The Saga of Texas, 1849–1875 (Austin: Steck-Vaughn Company, 1965), 139–59. 10. Fehrenbach, Lone Star, 554–58; Wayne Gard, The Chisholm Trail (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), 12; James M. Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn’t: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin and Violence in Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008), 4. E N D N O T E S 274 Endnotes 11. Rupert Norval Richardson, Texas: The Lone Star State (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1943), 310–14. 12. Sharp, “Experiences of a Texas Pioneer,” and Snyder, “Made Early Drives,” in Hunter, Trail Drivers of Texas, 721–29, 1029–31. 13. Tyler, s.v. “Boyce, Albert Gallatin,” 1, 681. 14. Hunter, “Colonel Albert G. Boyce,” 672. 15. Edwin James, “Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and ’20 . . . under Command of Major Stephen H. Long,” in Early Western Travels, ed. R. G. Thwaites (Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), quote from 95; John Miller Morris, El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536–1860 (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997), 202–4; J. Evetts Haley, The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado (Chicago: Capitol Reservation Lands, 1929; repr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967, 1985), 16–17. See also W. Eugene Hollon, The Great American Desert: Then and Now (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966). 16. Randolph B. Marcy, letter from the Secretary of War George W. Crawford, Feb. 21, 1850, “Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe,” H. Exec. Doc. 45, 31st Cong., 1st Sess., p. 41; Morris, El Llano Estacado, 261; Paul H. Carlson, Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006), 14–15; Ernest R. Archambeau, “The Fort Smith-Santa Fe Trail Along the Canadian River in Texas,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 27 (1954): 1–26. 17. Viewing those sweeping vistas, high clarity, and “wonderful emptiness” of the high plains, Georgia O’Keeffe discovered a new vision for her art, a way to magnify in brilliant pinks and yellows and pastels the beauty found in the spare commonplace , and thus the eccentric, unconventional, and controversial O’Keeffe became a major modernist artist. Llano Estacado, she would later recall, was “the only place where I have ever felt that I really belonged; that I felt really at home.” Carlson, Amarillo, 74–76; James L. Haley, Texas: From Spindletop through World War II (New York: St...

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