Thursday is the 141st anniversary of a “Wild West” shootout that – while it really didn’t happen in the West at all, but in southern Minnesota – carries with it something of a lesson that may be useful today when a gang terrorizes a community. The “Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid,” as it has become […]
Armed Minnesota Citizens Fight Back, Stop Interstate Gang Cold
When a heavily-armed gang of criminals who traveled from their home base in Missouri tried to stage a daring daylight bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota, their raid turned into a bloody rout leaving two of the gang dead and three others seriously wounded because armed citizens fought back…140 years ago today. The infamous James-Younger gang […]