James-Younger Gang's Drunken Downfall

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Bob Boze Bell tells the truth about the Battle of Northfield on September 7, 1876 when the James-Younger Gang went face-to-face with the Townsmen of Northfield and lost possibly as a result of alcohol.
Bob Boze Bell is known as America's Western Storyteller. He is an artist, author, writer and serves as executive editor of True West magazine. Bell is a popular, sought-after figure in television documentaries about the Old West, appearing as an expert in dozens of Wild West history shows. Bell won an Emmy Award as Executive Producer of the PBS special, Outrageous Arizona, a zany look at the state's centennial, that he also wrote and helped direct. As an author, Bell has brought to life Billy the Kid, Geronimo, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok in his best-selling Illustrated Life and Times series. His books Classic Gunfights I, II and III are must-reads about the most important Old West gunfights. Bell’s Bad Men is now in its fourth printing, while his illustrated autobiography, The 66 Kid: Raised on the Mother Road, gives personal insight into the passions that have driven him on his lifelong quest to interpret the history of the American West for audiences around the world.
This classic gunfight, along with many more, can be found in Bob Boze Bell’s Classic Gunfights Volume I. Even more can be found in Classic Gunfights Volume II, Classic Gunfights Volume III, or the Classic Gunfights I, II, and III Complete Set.
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@vernonpurdy8607 3 года назад

My grandfather put coffee cans on the fence posts and perforated the bottom so when he put grease or old oil would drain slowly on the post so it would preserve the wooden post.

@robappleby583 2 года назад

Correct! I was about to say the same thing.

@jerrys2745 2 года назад

Wow very interesting factoid.

@JenGa001 2 года назад

Mine too... it's very common where I live

@johnpogz9523 2 года назад

I have seen it, but it it never registered it was old old cans though. That's pretty genius.

@KingsleykSkorzeny 2 года назад

Thanks, Thats a fine idea, make ya fence last a long time.

@7colliemac 2 года назад

I’m from Australia.. my dad (RIP) was a western fanatic. He would have loved your stories as I do & would have bought your book. You watch movies & don’t know how accurate it is.

@gregoryurbach3015 3 года назад

All very fascinating. I search for old newspapers, and 30 years ago at a swap meet, found the St. Paul Pioneer-Press and Tribune for Sept. 28, 1876. The headline is the capture of the Younger Brothers. A paragraph in the text says Jesse James is believed dead. The newspaper is not in great condition. It was laying on a blanket covered in dirt, but it was only $1.

@DavidVanmeterDutch Год назад

Always has and still fascinates me how far but yet how close in time we are to all of this history. My grandfather that passed 3 years ago was born in 1929 and his mother came across the Oregon trail in wagons to settle in south central Oregon when they were kids. I grew up in the area they homesteaded but no family property or anything was still held after I was 2 or 3 years old.

@johnfilardo2699 2 года назад

Outstanding story Bob and Uno. I totally appreciated the opportunity to hear about the Great Northfield raid told truthfully. The Long Riders was an entertaining movie but the true story was even better. The people of Minnesota were brave and highly motivated to protect their bank! As a new subscriber to your site I'm looking forward to digging into all of your stories. Well done sir. 👏

@susanmccormick6022 Год назад

John Filardo:The idea of brothers playing the Younger's & James boys was good But as a true story,heck,no.

@stevewhite205 3 года назад

Frank shot Heywood, all that was ever said was "the guy on the dun horse". Never heard about them grabbing a kid to get thru Mankato. Was always, the Jame's wanted to kill off Bob cuz he was slowing them down, and Cole said "No Way". So Frank & Jesse left and took off west. When Bob got shot at Hanska Slough, after he gave up the shot came from a guy on a hill off to the side, and Sheriff Glispin said "Hold your fire, or I'll shoot the next man who fires a shot". But they did get treated very nice after being captured. Great Video Bob.

@glvarner 3 года назад

This story was excellent. Bob, you did a great job on this history. When the dog started barking I felt like I was home. Keep the stories coming partner.

@Mitchell7 2 года назад

I wish I could say, "yea, my dog too", but my black lab Mitchell 'never barks'....! I know, strange, but true.

@purpleaesthetic8617 2 года назад

Me and James young share the same great great great grandmother and grandpa

@fredcourtney03 2 года назад

I love the humanity interjected into the story. Your dog barking in the background just shows that you are telling stories from your home. I just need a glass of sweet tea. Great stories

@CharlesinGA 3 года назад

My Great, great, grandfather (my dad's father's mother's father) George Crutchley, was a doctor in Hardin (Ray Co) and Norborne (Carroll Co) in Missouri and was reputed to have doctored on the James and Younger gang on occasions when one of them got shot or injured. I have much of the furniture from his home, and we still have one of his leather doctors bags with medical equipment inside. He eventually got out of doctoring and opened a general store. Both he and his son were buried in the Hardin Cemetery in which many of the graves, including theirs, were washed away in the great 1993 flood.

@rickytodd6651 Год назад

Iam a Younger......we have much left from the Youngers and the most recent family book written about our family. As well I served time were Cole was at Stillwater after Northfield

@susanmccormick6022 Год назад

@@rickytodd6651 Sheesh I wish I could meet you.I have a book about the family which is a great read.And the cd of music played on Jim's violin.I wonder where it is now.

@markstaggs7342 2 года назад

Reno brothers from Seymour Indiana is the very first train robbers,Lots of people think Jesse James was but that is not correct,It was the Reno brothers and they were hanged.

@jerryhulburt8527 3 года назад

I lived between Mankato and madelia Minnesota. They still practice Minnesota nice to this day

@mikepulis4618 3 года назад

Bob Boze Bell came to one of our cowboy action shoots by Mankato and filmed some of us. The area of the range looked similar to the Hanska slough by LaSalle, MN. Our match director was Rex McBeth, a local cowboy poet, author and historian. At the entrance to North Mankato is a tribute to Rex which contains one of his poems about the Northfield raid. I wonder where Mr Bell has that video. I still have a picture of us cowboys from the day of the filming.

@mikemhoon 3 года назад

Maybe the coffee cans on the posts may were an attempt to keep the posts from rotting on the top?

@janupczak1643 3 года назад

Oh! What a great time I've just had listening to this! I realized half way through I was smiling and chuckling...Thanks so much for the most entertaining AND educational video. I'm so glad I found you.

@retiredguyadventures6211 3 года назад

You would think that so soon after the Civil War anybody with half a brain would not underestimate northerners willingness to fight, but good old boys will be good old boys...

@chieffamilygenealogyoffice621 Год назад

My grandfather was young in Minnesota and the MD who took care of the prisoners including the last remaining Younger brother -I think Cole younger - came to little falls minnesota. They were walking down the street past the empty lot where my grandfather and his friends had built a “fort”. Cole looked at it and said “that reminds me when we were camping out on the plains”. Am fairly sure there was more to the conversation…..

@stevepenney2073 3 года назад

Very interesting and entertaining.I remember many years ago my uncle telling me about seeing Frank James . I was only about 7 or 8 and i asked him...was he carrying a gun?He said he didnt know but a lot of people carried a gun in their pocket.That stuck with me.

@susanmccormick6022 Год назад

Steve Penney:Brings it close for me,thinking how my father who was born 1910,was alive when Cole & Frank were.May they all RIP.

@jimbailey7997 3 года назад

In Cole younger’s biography he said the James Brothers was not at Northfield .

@rthomas1247 3 года назад

I think it was more a case of: When history becomes muddled, print the "LEGEND"!----- "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"!!!!

@scarakus 3 года назад

This makes want to play Red Dead Redemption.

@carolinadog8634 2 года назад

The best story teller I’ve ever heard about the Wild West!

@lynnwood7205 3 года назад

Long ago you could still see the pockmarks in the brick and plaster walls from where the bullets were dug out. Boyhood memory from 1959 or 1960.

@cloudymindtv85 3 года назад

wow I could listen to him all day, love putting him in the background while I’m playing red dead redemption. I would love to hear his take on the Hatfield and mccoy story.

@rudolphrmcallister 2 года назад

I had just watched "The Long Riders" and I wanted to find some true to life facts on the Longfield robbery attempt. I'm so glad I found this page. Truth is sometimes much more interesting and crazier than fiction. Thank you sir for this explanation.

@guadalahonky4002 2 года назад

The Long Riders is one of my favorite films, I've been to Northfield to see the bank. It's worth pointing out that the James Brothers parted ways with the shot-to-pieces Youngers and Clell Miller, in Madelia, MN, that's over 80 miles away from Northfield. That's a pretty fair piece, being chased by a posse. Frank and Jesse rode as far west as Garretson, South Dakota before circling back southward, toward Missouri.

@WalldoTheWInner Год назад

Me too!!

@davidrice3337 Год назад

it's pretty good for a made for tv movie

@kevinwassellsr.5646 2 года назад

The coffee cans were to slow the decay from elements entering top of post

@nimitz1739 3 года назад

It’s weird that all up north all the men were soft. The South had just gotten whooped by the north in the Civil War. Most men in America at the time had military experience, north and south.

@gonnafish 3 года назад

A good tale! “Shot All to Hell” by Mark Lee Gardner is a great read and is well researched on the robbery and escape.

@dks13827 2 года назад

Kent read about the daughter May Heywood, see above.

@walkertongdee 3 года назад

It's not confidence that turned them to the whiskey before the fight it was fear, the liquid courage fortified their mettle, obviously...

@frankmiller95 2 года назад

But not the intellect.

@rooster6271 3 года назад

You are such an interesting storyteller, great voice for it too

@billm2078 2 года назад

The younger brothers were captured a few miles north of our home place. Just south of the town of LaSalle MN.

@williamfrancis402 3 года назад

Thanks for the great story Bob, always look forward to your videos

@HarpsichordHymnsTimRemington 3 года назад

Thanks so much! I really enjoyed learning many of the details about this robbery attempt. I never knew the whiskey angle before. I love all the insights into how the people lived their lives at that time.

@michaelhenson138 3 года назад

None of the guys with a gun could never out shoot bob mundon.

@larrydavis2559 3 года назад

Great story brought to life by your excellent story telling ability.

@mikemiller3553 3 года назад

I love reading True West magazine because it de-Hollywoods the stories and gives you the facts!! Looking forward to your next time on, and you spin a good truth!!

@brunovolk7462 3 года назад

Very nice video, thanks 👍👍👍

@burtvincent1278 2 года назад

Love the story, love the dog.

@rickriggins8440 3 года назад

I have been to the location in Northfield. The street where all this happened is very narrow and the fact anyone made it out of town is amazing.

@guadalahonky4002 2 года назад

The town reminded me of Prague or Vienna, lit up at night and the river running through downtown. My nephew had a soccer match there and the family asked me if I wanted to go to Northfield. I said 'Heck Ya!'

@clistabalusek6043 2 года назад

À1

@uptonsavoie 3 года назад

This enthusiastic retelling of the downfall of the J-Y gang is the best I've heard. I think Uno's comments were a great touch; give him a dog biscuit for me. I'm proud to have had a grandmother from Minnesota, and she was definitely "Minnesota nice" but Minnesota tough and no shrinking violet! Who can say but if she had been there at the time of the botched robbery, she might have been one of the shooters?

@ShaneReynolds0421 Год назад

New fan, here 😎👍🏼 keep ‘em coming. I’m 30, now. I enjoy listening to men wiser than me explain their interests. So much knowledge; It’s awesome.

@billstevens3372 3 года назад

A very good job,Thank you

@BabyfaceGaming101 2 года назад

This is an awesome story...on a Dalton/Younger binge because my maternal great grandmother was a Dalton and cousins with the Dalton boys via her great grandfather and theirs being one and the same...also related to them via the Youngers on my father's paternal line about the same distance...also have a great grandfather (father's maternal Carter line) that personally associated with the James brothers (which was apparently significant enough for it to be mentioned in his obituary) after the Civil War... It is one hell of a small world...

@ThomasHronbrook 6 месяцев назад

I'm just trying to understand my family great grandmother is a younger and have learned small pieces of it this is just an incredible why to hear what took place not to far back in our family's history

@BabyfaceGaming101 6 месяцев назад

@@ThomasHronbrook ikr...welcome to the family cousin!!!

@wapartist 3 года назад

Excellent story teller! So glad I found this channel

@johnbasalto4668 3 года назад

Viva Uno! Great story, as usual, Bob. I love hearing you tell the stories.

@jim2003sound 2 года назад

I was never particularly attracted to these historic Desperado stories but how could you not be drawn in by the infectious enthusiasm of such a great story teller.

@blukeblue1235 2 года назад

I should imagine that many of the men of Northfield were Civil War vets and used to shooting at Southerners.

@tskime16 3 года назад

I'm wondering your thoughts about Devil's Gulch in Garretson SD. Legend has it that Jessie's horse jumped it to escape the posse.

@patricklondon6006 3 года назад

Being a distance relative of the Youngers and having heard about the Northfield raid, I did learn something from you. I never knew they road the train there. I was just at Gads Hill Missouri the other day where Jesse James and 4 others carried out the first train robbery in Missouri on January 31 1874. Keep up the good work.

@4wchitstands 3 года назад

My grandmother was a younger from cherryvale Kansas and she said that her mother said that all the ladys liked Cole younger when he road into town. He is a cousin of mine also. Charles younger was my great grandfather. The youngers to me are American heroes fighting tyranny!!!

@freddymarcel-marcum6831 3 года назад

Distant relative

@guadalahonky4002 2 года назад

Cole Younger's father had a prestigious job with the mail and was highly respected and that was stripped away from the Youngers.

@Tmanaz480 2 года назад

Maternal great grandmother was a Younger.

@emmaconrey4575 Год назад

I am also a relative of the youngers!

@stevethomas5209 2 года назад

Time to chose a name for my soon to be son 1997 I was in video store renting the movie "Jesse and the Younger gang"... no sooner I heard a mother chasing her little boy around the video store screaming his name Cole ! Cole ! Cole !. I turned to my wife and said listen to that lady chasing that little boy named Cole she looked at me perplexed and I told her my sons name is going to be Cole after Cole Younger's name. My father's name is James so we named him Cole James Thomas.

@normanpearson8753 11 месяцев назад

Call the next Woodson , then the rest after the Northfield robbers !. Congrats .

@casey8899 3 года назад

I love James Gang when they play Funk 49!

@georgesouthwick7000 3 года назад

What happened in Northfield destroys the myth of a group of outlaws “treeing” a town. Most of the adult males in these towns were Civil War veterans. They were proficient with firearms and had no problem using firearms in defense of personal safety and property. What happened in Northfield would have happened in any other town. This also happened in Coffeyville, KS.

@MegaBIGJOE64 3 года назад

Veterans where just too happy to shoot that varmint down before taking a bath. Two dead and three wounded for 8 members, only one civilian died.

@jordanhicks5131 2 года назад

They "treed" a lot of towns before they got brought down, soooo.......

@davidbonneson9993 3 года назад

I'm from Mankato and have heard many stories about the gang and the route they took to get away. One was about when they hid out in a cave outside of town.

@dks13827 2 года назад

Where is the cave, please ? Great info.

@robertayoder2063 3 года назад

Chadwell was from Minnesota so I would think he had something to do with coming up with the raid in Northfield

@susanmccormick6022 2 года назад

Roberta Yoder:That's right.Looks like nobody said back up would be needed if anything was to happen to Bill.Or maybe it was overconfidence.

@alexhatfield4448 3 года назад

Hell that's how you got shot 11 times and live, a quart of whiskey.

@ergbudster3333 3 года назад

Now I always thought it was a matter of "don't rob Vikings or else!"

@ericanate3155 3 года назад

I spent some time in Sioux city and let me tell you, it's an incredibly beautiful city

@larrysune2659 3 года назад

I actually grew up by Forest City, IA. There is a old square house out in the country north of Scarville which supposedly a overnight place back in the day that the gang stayed in just before Northfield.

@monkeywrangler5200 3 года назад

I’m named after JJ and my brother after Cole…. No real reason why. Just all I’m adding. 🤷‍♂️

@susanmccormick6022 2 года назад

That's right.Jim had actually moved or planned to move to California,the former I think.But when Bob insisted that he was going with Dingus come hell or high water,Cole & Jim got swept in against their better judgement.I think,as the youngest,Bob felt he had to prove himself.He blamed himself for his brothers'capture & said if they had left him to his fate,the rest of them would never have been caught.He & Jim paid a heavy price.

@Sheltowee1775 3 года назад

Glad to see when you got up you had on pants. All these meetings in 2020 on Zoom I didn’t always where pants (well, I wore pajama pants and a nice shirt).

@dks13827 2 года назад

I bought Bob's Gunfights book 2 and Jesse and Frank's getaway is not in there !!!!

@michaelkurz9067 3 года назад

Wait a minute THERE IS NO ARIZONA NICE(heck no)

@TedBronson1918 3 года назад

"Minnesota nice" - I like that. The made the foolish mistake of equating friendliness and a peaceful demeanor as a weakness. I ran into that exact same problem in high school, where it inspired some some kids to try to bully me. I taught them differently by beating up their leader and sending him to the hospital for some stitches. That is the only way some people will learn that just because a person may be friendly, kind, generous or have whatever kind of good/redeeming qualities, that doesn't mean that they're weak people who can be pushed around.

@shawnathon60 3 года назад

I was also,, the nice kid,.. horrible childhood and home life,, saved all my frustrations for the bullies!

@susanmccormick6022 2 года назад

@@shawnathon60 I hope your life is better now.

@dedbytes2041 2 года назад

Loving the stories my friend! I wouldn't be so dismissive of a dog aggressively barking at my balls loool. Dog lover here and giving you a bit of shmoo :p I am in love with the old west and am finding your research and stories very fascinating!

@dks13827 2 года назад

2 rifles did it. Remington rolling block and a Smith .50 cal. Both were single shot.

@johnwesley8327 3 года назад

Great story, well told. Thanks

@bullitt7544 2 года назад

Maps are Everything. I was hooked when you made that apparent. You must have Maps.

@zing913945 3 года назад

Great fun to hear this history ! Thanks

@vehdynam 3 года назад

Wow ! I just found this channel.......great telling , very interesting for a fan of the old west. thank you .

@wildcolonialman 3 года назад

Fabulous telling. Dust coats and the Long Riders.

@John-lv1zq 3 года назад

Always nice to finally learn t the truth instead of southern movie propoganda

@ajdogcurr1 2 года назад

I love the dog barking because he reminds me of my dog AJ who lived with me and right by my side for 17 years. Your dog sounds exactly like my dog did. Squeky toy and whining for attention. He was a Catahula Curr very loyal friendly people loving dog. I miss him everyday. Love the James gang story to. I would like to see your dog what he looks like.

@mygremlin1 Год назад

My ex boss yrs ago lost his uncle to the Dillinger gang at the intersection of hwy 18 & hwy 69.

@frankmiller95 2 года назад

They needed the money pay for travel expenses to the Mensa convention in Chicago.

@bullitt7544 2 года назад

I have seen quite a few of your presentations there Hombre, and when it comes to the "Wild West's Most Notorious Gangsters you are without a doubt a much better "Speculator" than most, if not All others. Your stories are enthralling, exciting, and bring back History in a very full and complete manner. Hats off to you Pardner...

@islandnites 3 года назад

In the present, the gang would have been busted by OSHA for drinking on the job - and probably fired on the spot b4 they ever reached the bank (unless they were good standing union members, of course).

@mikeoveli1028 2 года назад

That was a great story. An eye lash away from victory. I love the details that you have dug up.

@stephenwall4494 Год назад

Just subbed today and Cannot believe I only just found this channel but so glad I did Love the story telling and the history Hi from the UK

@bookaufman9643 3 года назад

Omg. When that dog started barking I could not stop laughing. I love the fact that you left it in there.

@fixitmyself 3 года назад

Fantastic! Thanks for putting this up. What was really cool is I could Google the bank and it is still there and so is Division St. Thanks again!

@roosterbenes6112 3 года назад

Good job pilgrim!

@johnpierce2095 2 года назад

so if u had money in the bank and it gets robbed, then ur just out of luck back then i guess

@gregw.8044 Год назад

Thanks for sharing. Loved the content and you are a very good storyteller!

@disgruntledpedant2755 3 года назад

Why aren't there more of these?

@islandnites 3 года назад

Geez - back in the day when gangs could roam about. Just look at it now. Nothing but turf battles. Ahhhh the good old days?

@rthomas1247 3 года назад

Love this guy! Bob I hope you bring in UNO next time and I hate to say, HE/SHE "up-staged" you! Love your video segments. You are a true "gem" of "early, western history and culture", THANK YOU!

@michaelsmodelrailroading7665 2 года назад

UNO probably wanted some whiskey, sounds like to me.

@patpeacock8150 2 года назад

Don't think coffee came in cans in the Jesse james days

@doccyclopz 3 года назад

Thanks for this excellent video, very informative.

@johnwright291 3 года назад

Your in a position to be able to confirm or denied something I've heard about Cole younger. Did he go to Victoria BC during the civil war?

@terrymarchand7402 3 года назад

Love this was a awesome telling of the Northfield raid great job 👏

@douggoss4855 Год назад

Awesome talk. Keep them coming!

@grouchyoldman5348 2 года назад

Sounds like the same story as the dalton gang in coffeyville Kansas. All the Dalton’s died is the difference

@susanmccormick6022 2 года назад

Grouchy Old Man: Emmott lived.

@brianmfieldwick3494 3 года назад

Great story

@ThomasGabrielsen 2 года назад

I just recently discovered your channel and I find your stories compelling. You told that you're grandmother was Norwegian, do you know where in Norway your she came from, and do you have relatives in Norway? I hope you don't mind that I ask. I'm very interested in the immigration from Norway to USA in 1890 - 1910 time period. Three of my great-great-grandfather's sons emigrated to the United States in 1909 and 1910. The youngest, only 17 years old at the time, was named exactly the same as me. Unfortunately I don't know how things turned out for them, but I think there is a pretty good chance that I have some relatives in the US. The last track I've managed to find so far is the immigration record from when they arrived at Ellis Island. Greetings from Norway!

@gizabit 2 года назад

Im hooked on this guys presentation and knowledge on this history that what we have been brought up with truly inspiring thank you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇷

@jeffsmith2022 2 года назад

A- DEL- BERT...Thanks ,Bob...

@Bumper776 3 года назад

In the 1960s the furniture from the old Greenbriar Hotel south of Oblong Illinois was auctioned off. The hotel had been there since the 1860s or before. A local man bought a small table at the auction and years later noticed that on the underneath side of the table, written in pencil was the name "Jesse James" and a date in the 1870s. The table is in the possession of the man's daughter who is a retired schoolteacher. My questions are: Was Jesse James ever known to have been in that area? Is there any way to have the signature authenticated?

@outdoorlife5396 3 года назад

I love the story, where did Cole get shot to equal 11 shots? Where the rest of them at the arrest sight?

@dks13827 2 года назад

Some were buckshot................. less fatal of course.

@billm2078 2 года назад

A few years ago we had an officer involved shooting in St. James MN. I stated to the retired police chief, the last police involved shooting we had in the county was the Younger brothers.