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Northfield, Minnesota

by | Jun 11, 2024 | Travel & Preservation, True Western Towns

The James-Younger gang met its match in a frontier bank. At the centennial of the nation’s founding, Northfield, Minnesota, was a bucolic river town on the plains 40 miles south of St. Paul with a tidy business block, flour mill, railroad and two small colleges. Hardworking immigrant farmers—Norwegians, Swedes and Czechoslovakians—populated the area. They w


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