[davetex]

I vaguely remember the Billie Sol Estes name as a young kid. Didn’t he also have something to do with some land scam outside of Houston? Can’t remember the name of the place now.

[lentulusgracchus]

The land scandal may be the Sharpstown scandal of the early 1970's that brought down a group of state politicians around the then-speaker of the Texas house, Gus Mutscher. I think that was the time that Sissy Farenthold became semi-famous in Texas politics, along with the Daniel family, for standing up to the "players".

Estes was from south Texas and played down there. As I recall, grain was his medium of play.