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...Cowley, Wyo...
...left a letter to Sheriff Blackburn with a return address, "Undertaker's Office, Powell, Wyo." Excerpt...
...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...
Said the killer's father, respected Rancher Walter W. Durand of Powell, Wyo.: "The boy seems to have gone insane and started killing men he has known throughout his lifetime. The great outdoors was my son's god. I think when he was sent to jail he went nearly crazy thinking about having to give up his outdoor life. . . . God help...
Something of a hero, something of a joke in the country around Powell, Wyo. was huge, shaggy young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...