Description
Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps and used car dealers who became known as the "traveling criminals," they burglarized banks and ran smuggling and prostitution rings all over Texas. Author Jesse Sublett presents a detailed account of these Austin miscreants, who rose to folk hero status despite their violent criminal acts.
Author Name: Jesse Sublett
Publisher: The History Press; First Edition
Publish Date: March 9, 2015
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 13.3 ounces
Size: 6 x 0.31 x 9 inches
ISBN Number 13: 978-1626198401
ISBN Number 10: 1626198403
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