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Bibliography of Colorado County
1-35. Sonnichsen, Charles Leland. "All In The Family." Chapter (15 pages) in I'//ll Die
Before I'll Run. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Hardbound with dust jacket.
Revised edition, New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1962. Hardbound with
dust jacket. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Paperback.
This, the best published account of the feud between the Reeses and the
Townsends at Columbus, is fairly reliable, though neither thorough nor detailed.
Sonnichsen ties the 1890 murder of the Stafford brothers to the series of
shootouts that began in 1898, but offers little justification for doing so. He
probably formed his initial impression of the feud in interviews with some former
residents of Columbus who then lived in El Paso. These individuals, however,
lived in Columbus for a very short time when they were children, and were
apparently close friends with the Reeses. Both facts almost certainly colored
their perceptions. One of the people he interviewed, Ralph Grimes, was
apparently a witness to the murder of the Staffords. It might have been Grimes'
conviction that the Stafford murder was part of the subsequent feuding, formed
as a young man who had not lived in Columbus for nearly a decade when the
feud actually began, that influenced Sonnichsen to believe that it was. Son-
nichsen interviewed several people in Columbus, including one man, Henry
Thomas, who had direct knowledge of the Stafford family. In Hallettsville, he
found a man he identified as Doc Houchens who was associated with the Reeses.
In his notes, Sonnichsen also refers to a chapter on this feud in Claude Leroy
Douglas' Famous Texas Feuds (Dallas: The Turner Company, 1936. Reprint,
Austin: State House Press, 1988), but no such chapter exists.
1-36. Statuten und Nebengetze der Content-Neu Bielau Gegenseitigen UnterstOtzungs-
Gesellschaft. Bellville: Bellville Wochenblatt, 1897. 12 pages. Softbound.
Statutes and bylaws of the Content-New Bielau Mutual Support Society, which
was organized on September 26, 1897 to insure its members against fire and
lightning. In German.
1-37. Tolbert, Frank X. "The Strange Saga of Sally Skull, Who Was Left Out of All the
Previous History Books." Chapter (pp. 214-218) in An InformalHistory of Texas.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. Hardbound with dust jacket. The earliest
of the biographical sketches of Sally Scull, and the least useful.
1-38. Wade, Houston. David Wade A Texas Pioneer. La Grange: La Grange Journal,
1943. 33 pages. Softbound. Wade family history with much on David Wade,
one-time sheriff of Colorado County.
1-39. [Willrodt, Arthur James]. The Story of The Stafford Opera House. [1973]. 12
pages. Softbound. Revised and reprinted under the title The Stafford Opera
House A Prospectus for Heritage '76 "Meeting House" for the State of Texas,
[1975]. A brief history of and restoration plans for the Stafford Opera House,
with illustrations by Jean Du Bose.41
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