The Jesse James - Younger gang fled from Northfield, Minnesota after a failed bank robbery. Young Sorbel recognized the gang as they passed his Hanska farm. Bob, Cole and Jim Younger would eventually surrender to this seven-man posse 8 miles west of Madelia on the banks of the Watonwan River. Charlie Pitts died in the shootout.
Lake Hiawatha Park (then Rice Lake) looking S.E. and S.W. from hill between 21st and 22nd avenue S. at 43rd street in Minneapolis, Minnesota March 28, 1922.