Excerpt
It was November 1932, Thanksgiving Eve. Station KVOO in Tulsa headily announced the coldest temperature on record for that date. The bitter cold had, for the most part, emptied the sandy streets. Still some stout folks were out shopping for Thanksgiving extras, including gun shells, for the next day was quail hunting season. Most of the townspeople conserved their energy for banter about who would win the high school basketball game between the Boley Bears and the Wewoka Lions. Heads turned instinctively as a brown sedan slowly rolled into town. It came to a stop and its occupants stepped out and placed well polished shoes and boots on the towns dirt street. They were instantly spotted as sticking out like whores at a church picnic. It was half past ten in the quiet Negro town of Boley, when bandits Patterson and Birdwell beat into the heart of the town, Farmers and Merchants Bank.
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