This Week in Texas History: Crime did not pay for Big Thicket brothers

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“Red” Goleman and an accomplice held up the bank at Hull in Liberty County on July 26, 1939. The Big Thicket bandit was setting a dangerous example for a younger brother, who would someday follow in his footsteps.The Goleman boys grew up in the Big Thicket region of southeast Texas, where their…

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