If I had to choose a favorite outlaw, without hesitation I’d say, “Cole Younger.” A few years ago the late author Jack Koblas told me a poignant sidebar on the Great Northfield Bank Robbery that he’d recently discovered. As the James Younger gang was heading towards a rendezvous with destiny they rode through the little town of St. Peter, north of Mankato. Cole Younger liked kids and had become


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