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On September 7, 1876 six outlaws from the James-Younger Gang rode out of Northfield, Minnesota after a failed attempt to rob the First National Bank of Northfield.  For the next two weeks, under dark and rainy skies, the wounded outlaws journeyed over one hundred miles in an effort to escape Minnesota.  Amid rain-swollen rivers, sudden encounters with unsuspecting citizens, and the largest posse in U.S. history on their tail, Jesse and Frank James, Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, and Charlie Pitts would endure the most harrowing adventure of their lives.

This book not only serves as a stand-alone history, but for the first time, allows the reader all the information neccessary to travel the route from the gang's escape out of Northfield to the final shootout at Hanska Slough.  Complete with maps, driving directions, and GPS coordinates, and current photos, the traveler can personally see the sites and learn the story that made this one of the most significant dramas in outlaw history

The book was first published 19 years after the attempted robbery and is a classic account of the Northfield bank raid. Huntington, a Carleton College professor interviewed surviving eye witnesses and tells the story from the robbers arrival in Minnesota to the trial and imprisonment of the Younger brothers

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Every wonder what conversations Frank and Jesse James had when planning the robbery here in Northfield? Well, this new historical fiction book by renowned western author Johnny D. Boggs gives you an insight into those conversations.

Follow the gang through their planning stages of the Northfield robbery to their escape in "their own words."

American history's most famous outlaw comes alive in Ron Hansen's imaginative recreation of the West. The charismatic Jesse James has a quick temper, an even faster draw, and holds sway over his ragged ganguntil the arrival of upstart Robert Ford.

Torn between worship and jealousy, Ford makes a fateful decision that torments him for the rest of his lifeand becomes one of the most legendary events of the American frontier.

Introduction by Marley Brant
 

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
 

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Joseph Lee Heywood, the acting bank cashier who frustrated the James-Younger Gang in their efforts to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, MN on September 7, 1876 and was shot dead by one of the desperadoes, was a corporal in the Union Army during the Civil War. Contrary to the presumptions of several historians, his service was neither short nor without peril.

This book recreates the historical context of those years, examines the personality of Joseph Lee Heywood and traces his activities from the time he enlisted in the Union Army until the end of the war. In the process of conducting research for the book, it was learned that the man who recruited Heywood abandoned his regiment shortly thereafter and subsequently was killed in one of the most famous murder cases in Washington, DC.

Forty percent of Heywood’s company deserted prior to being sent into action and 14% were discharged as being unfit, yet Joseph persisted with his military duties. He was labeled a "straggler" and falsely accused of being a deserter even though he had participated in major battles during the Vicksburg Campaign and made extraordinary efforts to rejoin his unit and contribute to the war effort after he fell ill to one of the many communicable diseases prevalent during the Civil War. Heywood’s behavior during the war is found to be consistent with his character as manifested during his time in Northfield.

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Mr. Koblas presents a detailing of American Indian history from earliest times, carefully setting up the climate of inevitable confrontation with the arrival of white settlers in Minnesota. He explores the treaties made with the United Sates government and the Indian nations and explains why and how these treaties failed, how both sides failed to understand the fundamental differences in culture, and how the pressure put upon the politicians in Washington D. C., to open land for settlers enticed them to break treaties almost before the ink dried. This book launches into the confrontations and battles fought when the Indians could no longer sufer the indignities forced on them by the United States goverment, the increased white settlement, Indian traders, and unscrupulous Indian agents.

Volume II, Fire, is the second book in a three volume set focusing on the conflict.

Mr. Koblas presents a detailing of American Indian history from earliest times, carefully setting up the climate of inevitable confrontation with the arrival of white settlers in Minnesota. He explores the treaties made with the United Sates government and the Indian nations and explains why and how these treaties failed, how both sides failed to understand the fundamental differences in culture, and how the pressure put upon the politicians in Washington D. C., to open land for settlers enticed them to break treaties almost before the ink dried. Ashes continues with the final battles in the Indian Uprising through to Wounded Knee and the aftermath of the war.

Volume III, Ashes, is the third and final book in a three volume set focusing on the conflict.
 

Mr. Koblas presents a detailing of American Indian history from earliest times, carefully setting up the climate of inevitable confrontation with the arrival of white settlers in Minnesota. He explores the treaties made with the United Sates government and the Indian nations and explains why and how these treaties failed, how both sides failed to understand the fundamental differences in culture, and how the pressure put upon the politicians in Washington D. C., to open land for settlers enticed them to break treaties almost before the ink dried. The stage is set for the coming conflict, including the skirmishes that preceded the uprising that had to come.

Volume I, SMOKE, is the first book in a three volume set focusing on the conflict.
 

Silver bells, hot cider, presents tied up iwth ribbons, festive holly, tinsel-covered trees--images of almost everyone's Christmas, right? Not! Doc and Tweed manage to find a whole lot of adventure in a quiet New York town that includes traitors from teh Revolutionary War, ghosts, secret messages, and, oh, yes headless horsemen.

Trust those two boys to find trouble anywhere.

Jesse James and his gang roamed the fields and valleys of Iowa, seeking targets in the many trains and banks in small towns scattered across the countryside. It was in Iowa where he and his gang honed their skills and practiced for the attempt at robbing the Northfield bank in Minnesota.

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The most accurate and detailed history yet written of the 1876 James-Younger Gang's raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota.

On the 125th anniversary of the defeat of the gang, author John Koblas provides a detailed compilation of the known facts surrounding the foiled robbery. Koblas combines an exhaustive sweep of original source materials with previously unpublished information from the vaults of Northfield to shed new light on the raid. He takes us from New Orleans to the streets of Northfield to the State Prison of Minnesota, forming a coherent picture of the plans leading up to the raid and the days following it.

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Dancer’s plan is simple. She wants nothing more than to live a life of solitary adventure. But when she meets Titan, a handsome black colt, she begins to question all of her plans.

As Dancer heads west with Titan and his young sister Lily, their lives are changed forever. They encounter wagon trains, a young girl’s friendship and a terrible western snowstorm, causing Dancer’s courage and inner strength to be put to the test.

Can Dancer uphold the image of her ancestors? Will she be worthy to be known as the great-granddaughter of the magnificent Sariavo?

They were the great-great grandsons of the mighty Sariavo himself...Storm and Shalimar; the sons of Dancer. But they could not fully prepare for the trials that would face them.

Race alongside Shalimar as he travels eastward and is captured by men from the Pony Express to be used as a mail carrier. Travel westward with Storm as he discovers friendship in a very unlikely place, and finds the meaning of true love when he meets an independent mare, kaya, who has vowed never to belong to any stallion. together, these two borthers must find their destinies, and when a terrible forest fire threatens their home, one of them must learn the meaning of true sacrifice. 

Glory was a big albino stallion, a prized color among the neighboring tribes of Indians. His heart was as golden as the rising sun, and his destiny was bright with promise.

But when a young mare arrived at his home to visit a member of the herd, Glory's eyes are opened to a whole new world.

Captivity by a nearby Indian village threw Glory's world into chaos. He soon became the prized possession of the chief of the village, Running Fox.

Through all of his adventures, Glory learned the value of true friendship, and also...true love...

Fury, the fiery red stallion was determined to carry on the lineage of his ancestors. His adopted father, Sariavo, who previously captured the hearts of many readers, was now ready to settle down and stay home, but Fury wasn't satisfied. He needed to explore and to see new things.

Accompanied by his beautiful black mate, Novana, Fury journeys far into the heart of the American West.

The heart-warming story depicts one stallion's fight to prove himself worthy of the title "Mighty Stallion". Journey with him as he finds out what makes a Mighty Stallion so diffrent from all others, and what things in life really matter. 

Follow the real-life journey of ball turret gunner of a B-24 bomber, William Lee Cupp. Cupp parachuted from his crippled aircraft on June 14, 1944 as it went down over Belgium. He spent the next ten months first evading the enemy, then being sheltreed by the brave mean and women of the Belgian and French Resistance, and finally as a POW of the Third Reich.