minnesotans

Updated: September 4, 2025

Senator Davis was among the prominent Minnesotans who worked for our parole, although he did not live to see it accomplished. In May, 1864, Col. George S. Jackson and a force of about 300, myself among the number, were sent across the staked plains into Colorado to intercept some wagon trains, and to cut the transcontinental telegraph line from Leavenworth to San Francisco.

Cole Younger - The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself