Research by Doyle Tampleton uncovers old-time bank robberies

When I was a young teenager living in Holdenville, OK I would visit and hang out in Sims Grocery Store. Here Charlie Sims and his wife would sell groceries on the credit, buy furs, and buy pecans. In the large storage area in the back of the store I would sit on the one hundred pound sacks of pecans and listen to the old men and Native American Indians tell stories of the past. These were stories about the depression days, the dust bowl, WWI and my favorite stories were about bank robbers and of course I took it all in like a sponge.