The cache IS NOT at the listed coordinates. However, using
information from the two monuments at the listed coordinates you
can easily obtain the exact location nearby.
Lake Linden, north shore; Thursday, the 21st, two weeks after
the raid, one week after the gang split and the James boys escaped.
Since the Jameses have escaped and the others haven't been seen for
a week the common assumption is that all have escaped. The posses
have disbanded. End of story? Not quite. The rains continues. The
remaining outlaws (Cole, Jim and Bob Younger and Charlie Pitts)
slowly mend and creep through the woods.
On the morning of the 21st, a teenager, Asle (Oscar) Sorbel (or
Suborn), is milking his cows near Linden Lake on the edge of The
Big Woods. As the fields are wet he's milking a cow in the road.
Two strangers pass by. A week earlier he had been warned by a
former Yankee colonel, owner of a hotel in Madelia, to watch for
the outlaws and was given descriptions of them. Oscar thought the
two fit the descriptions and reported his suspicions to his father
who pooh-poohed the idea thinking Oscar was trying to get out of
his chores. But Oscar persisted, finished milking his cow, and
trailed the pair for a ways. Meanwhile the other two came to the
farm and obtained some food from Oscar's mother. Now the elder
Sorbel's suspicions were aroused and he allowed Oscar to ride the
twelve miles into Madelia to report. On the way, the farm horse
stumbles and Oscar is thrown into the mud. Coming into town,
covered with mud from head to toe, the boy has trouble convincing
anyone of his story. He finds Colonel Vought who believes him and a
local posse from Madelia and St. James is formed.
Fearing reprisals after the capture - and threats were made -
the Sorbels changed their names and moved to Dakota, where Oscar
attended veterinary school and became a successful vet. When Geo.
Huntington was compiling his book on the raid in 1925, the only
principle character he was unable to track down was Oscar, because
of the name change. It was only a few years before his death that
Oscar's true identity was revealed.
Directions to the cache: At the site there are two
monuments, one for Asle Sorbel and one for John Armstrong, a
pioneer killed during the Sioux uprising, coincidentally on Sept.
7, exactly N years before the raid on the bank. The cache is
located N steps (at two feet and a half per step) northwest of the
monuments.
Previous stop:
Rush Lake .
Next and last stop is at Hanska Slough where you can find
Zoejam72's
Younger Brothers geocache as well as Sky's
Younger Bros. - Hanska Slough pure letterbox .