Archive - Oct 6, 2008

Well, I just returned from the great state of Mizzuriah...Missoriah...Missouri; sorry it is taking me a while to get back to the official spelling of the state.  I was attending the National James-Younger Gang convention.  This group is committed to researching and preserving the history of the James-Younger Gang.  There was a great group of people from Minnesota in attendance again this year!

There were many presentation on the gang and many interesting points were made.  However, the best presentation was that of our very own, Earl Weinmann.  His presentation was on the new book Caught in the Storm, which was just published by the Northfield Historical Society and was written by the SCOPE program students.  In addition, the book won the James-Younger Gang's Perry Award for best book of 2008.

We also attended a re-enactment of the Datlon Gang's failed robbery in Coffeyville Kansas, a Civil War Museum in Carthage MO, The Bushwacker Museum and many other historic sites in Missouri.  It was a wonderful conference!

Finally, I was elected to the Board of Directors for the James-Younger Gang and NHS's good friend Chip DeMann was elected President!  Next year's convention is going to be in Minnesota!!  More details to follow!

Here are some pictures from the conference.