What happened to Jesse James and his band of bank robbers after they high-tailed it out of Northfield? Some of them ended up near the town of Madelia. In this week’s Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us how their capture put a little community on the map.

On Sept. 7, 1876, the James-Younger gang, led by infamous outlaw Jesse James, attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minn. Here is how local residents resisted the notorious gang