Word: durand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl Durand...
...natural fortress of boulders and timber, near Clark's Fork Canyon 30 miles northwest of Cody, Wyo., Earl Durand, 26, the huge, hairy "true woodsman" who broke jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming...
Game wardens went out and arrested Earl Durand last week for killing a bull elk out of season. When they found him he was devouring a slab of raw meat from another creature he had just shot illegally, a beef...
...Cody jail one night, when Deputy Sheriff Noah Riley took Earl Durand's supper to his cell, the huge, hairy youth picked him up like a puppy, took his keys, grabbed a rifle, forced the deputy to drive him to the Durand ranch. Under-Sheriff D. M. Baker and Marshal Charles E. Lewis followed. Earl Durand dropped them dead in their tracks with just three shots from his rifle, one wasted. Then he clubbed Deputy Riley unconscious, made his father put up provisions, headed for the snowy mountains...
...posse of 80 Wyoming and Montana law officers set out after Earl Durand. They moved warily. They knew he was more than a match for any of them hand-to-hand or at far rifle range. The law calculated Wyoming's greatest manhunt in years might last a while...