The desperadoes ordered the three bank employees to open the safe, but were told that the door was locked and couldn’t be opened. and announcing that they were holding up the bank. What would later be called a “textbook James-Younger robbery” began with three of the gang members entering the bank at 2 p.m. On September 7, 1876, eight bandits rode into Northfield to rob the First National Bank. Little did the gang members know that this decision would end all of their careers as outlaws and result in the deaths of three gang members and two Northfield citizens. However, the gang decided to abort the robbery and headed for its second choice, Northfield. On September 4, the gang rode into Mankato to rob the 1st National Bank of Mankato (the gang’s first choice). Paul, as well as Madelia, Mankato, Lake Crystal, St. Looking for possible sites to execute their plans, they considered banks in Minneapolis, Red Wing, St. Upon arriving in the state, the gang divided into scouting parties of two, three, and four men. The gang consisted of brothers Jesse and Frank James brothers Bob, Jim, and Cole Younger Clell Miller Charlie Pitts and Bill Stiles. In late August 1876, the James-Younger Gang headed for Minnesota. It was the bank that drew the attention of America’s most notorious bank and train robbers: the James-Younger Gang. The town also had many prominent business leaders and a healthy bank. By this time the town had two colleges and saw the completion of a railroad through town. Northfield in 1876 was a growing Southern Minnesota community. Tilden won the popular vote, but Hayes won the electoral college vote and became the 19th president of the United States. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden for the presidency. America celebrated its 100th birthday with the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, George Custer was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Rutherford B. Yer' Album contained much to suggest that the James Gang, in particular its guitarist, had a great future, even if it was more an album of performances than compositions.1876 was a year of great change in America’s history. After ten minutes, Szymczyk faded the track out, but Walsh was still going strong. Nevertheless, they were talented improvisers, as the open-ended album closer, Jerry Ragavoy and Mort Shuman's "Stop," made clear. But the otherwise promising "Fred," which followed, broke down into a pedestrian jazz routine, suggesting that the band was trying to cram too many influences onto one record and sometimes into one song. If "Wrapcity (i.e., Rhapsody) in English," a minute-long piano and strings interlude, seems incongruous in retrospect, recall that this was an eclectic era. Walsh's "Take a Look Around" must have made an impression on Pete Townshend during the period before the album's release when the James Gang was opening for the Who since Townshend borrowed it for the music he was writing for the abortive Lifehouse follow-up to Tommy. But in addition to the blues rock there were also touches of pop and progressive rock, mostly from Walsh who displayed a nascent sense of melody, not to mention some of the taste for being a cutup that he would display in his solo career. The group had written some material, but they were still something of a cover band, and the disc included their extended workouts on Buffalo Springfield's "Bluebird" and the Yardbirds' "Lost Woman," the latter a nine-minute version complete with lengthy guitar, bass, and drum solos. The heavy rock scene of the period was given to extensive jamming, and four tracks ran more than six minutes each. The James Gang's debut LP, Yer' Album, was very much a first record and very much a record of its time.
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