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Cole Younger said much the same thing years later and recalled greeting "General Ames" on the street in Northfield just before the robbery. Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, Frank and Jesse James, Charlie Pitts, Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell took the train to St. Paul, Minnesota, in early September 1876.
Cole Younger after being wounded and captured in 1876 Cole Younger, c. 1915 On September 7, 1876, the James–Younger Gang attempted to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota . Cole Younger and his brother Bob both later said that they selected the bank because of its connection to two former Union generals and Radical politicians, Benjamin Butler ...
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the " Little Dixie " area of Missouri , James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies.
The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their brothers. After getting antsy during a bank robbery, Ed Miller opens fire and kills the clerk, resulting in a shootout where Jesse is wounded. Jesse dismisses Ed from the gang; his brother Clell remains.
In the mid 1870s, outlaws Jesse James, Cole Younger and their brothers are granted amnesty by the Missouri legislature, sympathetic to the troubles created for all citizens by the American Civil War. The bankers victimized by the James and Younger gangs are vehemently opposed to this action and hire a Pinkerton agent to follow the outlaws ...
In 1873 he joined the James–Younger Gang, which was founded by Cole, along with Frank and Jesse James. It's uncertain how much time he spent with the gang, but he was present when his brother John was killed by Pinkertons in Roscoe, Missouri in 1874. He left the gang and spent the next two years working a ranch in San Luis Obispo, California.
Jesse Cole's father shared the following wisdom with his baseball-obsessed 5-year-old son: “Swing hard in case you hit it.” To say the younger Cole has taken that advice to heart is an ...
On January 31, 1874, five men, believed to have been Jesse and Frank James, Cole Younger, Jim Younger and John Younger, entered the small town of Gads Hill, Missouri, and robbed the general store. Afterwards, they proceeded to hold the townspeople hostage inside the store.