The ragged remnants of the James-Younger Gang rode south out of Northfield—six men on five horses. All of them were wounded (see sidebar, next page), and one had trouble staying in the saddle. Their guide, a local Minnesota boy named Bill Chadwell, lay dead back on Division Street. In his pocket authorities found a map; one assumes it was intended to show the way out of the state. Up ahead, a thousand-man posse was forming (the largest in U.S. history). The outlaws were over 500 miles from


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