No, Bob, Cole and Jim Younger did not own a condo here at Terra Springs. Oh, the boys lived here, all right—till Bob’s death in 1889 and Cole and Jim’s parole in 1901—but that was long before the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater was replaced by a new one in Bayport in 1914. The prison that housed the Youngers was torched by arsonists in 2002, and has been converted into condominiums. Crime does not pay, children. In 1876, shot to pieces and captured roughly two weeks after b


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