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Almost half a century after the Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas erupted in bloodshed in 1912, two Texas historians attempted to write about the affair. But no one would talk to them. Lewis Nordyke abandoned the idea, and C. L. Sonnichsen, another chronicler of Texas feuds, wrote that it was "too soon to talk about the Boyce-Sneed affair.” Not until the 1990s did the whole story emerge, when descendants of the feuding families finally called a truce, opened the family archives, and shared family legends. And what a tale it proved to be—a classic saga of passion, violence, and revenge, of retribution but never redemption.…mehr

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Almost half a century after the Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas erupted in bloodshed in 1912, two Texas historians attempted to write about the affair. But no one would talk to them. Lewis Nordyke abandoned the idea, and C. L. Sonnichsen, another chronicler of Texas feuds, wrote that it was "too soon to talk about the Boyce-Sneed affair.” Not until the 1990s did the whole story emerge, when descendants of the feuding families finally called a truce, opened the family archives, and shared family legends. And what a tale it proved to be—a classic saga of passion, violence, and revenge, of retribution but never redemption.
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BILL NEAL practiced criminal law in West Texas for twenty years as a prosecutor and twenty as a defense attorney. He is the author of Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials, From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West, and Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style.