Editing Northfield, Minnesota (section)

===Defeat of Jesse James Days Celebration===
[[Image:Northfield First National.jpg|thumb|left|The First National Bank in the Scriver Building in Northfield, Minnesota, site of the attempted robbery]]
[[File:Scriver Building.jpg|thumb|left|The Scriver Building in Northfield, Minnesota]]
On September 7, 1876, Northfield experienced one of its most important historical events, when The James-Younger Gang attempted a robbery on the First National Bank of Northfield.<ref>{{cite news|title=Raid by robbers|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6562843/northfield_bank_robbery_1876/|access-date=September 9, 2016|work=The Worthington Advance|date=September 14, 1876|location=Worthington, Minnesota|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Local citizens, recognizing what was happening, armed themselves and resisted the robbers and successfully thwarted the theft. The gang killed the bank's cashier, [[Joseph Lee Heywood]] and a Swedish immigrant, [[Nicholas Gustafson]]. A couple of members of the gang were killed in the street, while Cole, Bob, and Jim Younger were cornered near [[Madelia, Minnesota]]. Jesse and Frank James escaped west into the Dakota Territory, while the remaining gang members were killed or taken into custody. Considering the James gang as related to postwar [[insurgency]], the raid has sometimes been called the last major event of the [[American Civil War]]. Two popular Northfield slogans are "Jesse James Slipped Here", based on the raid's failure, and "Get your guns boys, they're robbing the bank!", which was the alarm sounded by hardware store merchant J.S. Allen that spurred Northfield men into action, arming themselves with long guns in a street shootout that lasted around seven minutes, leaving two gang members dead in the street. Bob Younger's horse was killed and Frank James assassinated First National Bank acting cashier Joseph Lee Heywood. Swedish immigrant Nicolaus Gustafson was shot in the head by Cole Younger and died of his injuries four days later. Bank teller Alonzo Bunker was shot in the shoulder as he tried to escape.

The events have become the basis of an annual outdoor heritage festival called ''The Defeat of Jesse James Days''.<ref name = djjd>{{cite web | title = The Defeat of Jesse James Days Celebration | publisher = DJJD Committee, Inc. | year = 2006 | url = http://djjd.org | access-date = September 9, 2007}}</ref> It is held the weekend after Labor Day and is among the largest outdoor celebrations in Minnesota. Thousands of visitors witness reenactments of the robbery, which are staged on Division Street, outside of the First National Bank of Northfield. Other activities during the festival include a championship rodeo, carnival, car show, and parade, as well as arts and crafts expositions, and musical performances. Many food stations are set up in Bridge Square, and during the evenings live music is played in the Entertainment Center tent on Water Street. A horseshoe hunt takes place the week before the celebration: an antique horseshoe is hidden somewhere within the city on public grounds and the finder claims that year's cash purse.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.djjd.org/horse-shoe-hunt/ |title=Horse Shoe Hunt - Defeat of Jesse James Days |website=Djjd.org |date=April 13, 2011 |access-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref>