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Product Identifiers
PublisherHIGH Plains Press
ISBN-100931271738
ISBN-139780931271731
eBay Product ID (ePID)30789845
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Eleven Days of Earl Durand
Number of Pages221 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2005
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorJerred Metz
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-010151
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"It's all here--vivid as when I was a boy--the life, capture, flight, and last days of the poacher turned murderer, Earl Durand. "This book will excite your emotions, sadden you, puzzle and anger you. It happened just that way. I remember." -- Alan K. Simpson, "One wonders what Fox News...would make of the story of Earl Durand. One can imagine Greta of Fox...standing in front of the cabin at the foot of the Beartooth Mountains [giving minute by minute reports]. "For once the cover blurbs are true: in Larry K. Brown's words, 'this is a page-burner.' You'd better wear gloves when you read it, because this story is hot even without Greta's help." -- Doris Meredith, The most imaginative creator of pulp melodrama never, in his wildest dreams, produced as wild a story as Durand lived in his last ten days. If it had been portrayed on the screen, no one would have believed it could be real.
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Dewey DecimalB
SynopsisIn March 1939, a young Wyoming desperado blazed on the scene like a meteor. As a result of his crime spree, which began with an elk poach and ended with a bank robbery, seven men died, including the desperado himself. It was over in a matter of days. It left families, neighbors, and friends bereft and confused. The effects of the horrors rippled through the community. The events captured the nation's attention and the front pages of newspapers. The Denver Post lavished the appellation "Tarzan of the Tetons" on Durand, though he did not resemble Tarzan in any regard, and the events were not that near the Teton mountains. Author Jerred Metz first became fascinated with the story of Earl Durand in 1973 after hearing a student sing "The Ballad of Earl Durand." Metz took his young family to Wyoming in 1978 to interview participants in the events and returned several times. Fifteen of those interviews became the fifteen chapters of this book, narrated in the first-person voices of people who lived through the episode--not mere bystanders, observers, or commentators, but participants. Forty years is a long time to recall events that flew by like a flash. But the people interviewed had contemplated these events for years, trying to make them understandable. Their stories flow together like a river as they each, in turn, recount the last eleven days of Earl Durand., In March 1939, a young Wyoming desperado blazed on the scene like a meteor. As a result of his crime spree, which began with an elk poach and ended with a bank robbery, seven men died, including the desperado himself. It was over in a matter of days. It left families, neighbors, and friends bereft and confused. The effects of the horrors rippled through the community. The events captured the nation's attention and the front pages of newspapers. The Denver Post lavished the appellation "Tarzan of the Tetons" on Durand, though he did not resemble Tarzan in any regard, and the events were not that near the Teton mountains.
LC Classification NumberHV6653.D8M48 2004
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- 08. Okt. 2023
Tarzan of the West
Is a true story of a man from Powell, WY, who gets caught poaching and is thrown in jail. He escapes and goes on a killing spree. The man hunt is on. Can they bring him to justice?Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Jun. 2021
Great Reading !
Great Book, Interesting story line !Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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