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. 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.

The Last Eleven Days Of Earl Durand

Biographies & Memoirs

Metz, Jerred

Historical

High Plains Pr

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. 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.

Halley's Comet, 1910: Fire in the Sky

Singing Bone Pr

Jerred Metz takes us back to the war that opened the deadliest century in human history. A battalion of angels, mystical intercessors, and a cast of engaging humans ranges from British machine gunners to Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, and W.B. Yeats. The Angel of Mons is a meditative and transcendent journey into a war we can never learn too much about, or from. Kevin Coyne, author of Marching Home This is the starting point for Metz’s wide-ranging, original book: St. George, the Angel of Mons, appears out of an unfurling cloud over the Mons-Conté canal, saving Lt. Dease’s Vickers machine-gun crew. The saint attacks the Germans and saves the BEF from annihilation. A few days, later Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s and W.B. Yeats’ experiences confirm this to be so. Historical characters rub shoulders with men and women of the author's creation.Steeped in the Edwardian Age’s beliefs about the psychic phenomena and spiritualism, the novel shows that success in the battle is more than a matter of well-sited machine guns and resolute crews; in The Angel of Mons St. George determines the fate of the “Golden Arrows of God,” and the British Expeditionary Force. Antony Bird author of Gentlemen, We will Stand and Fight: Le Cateau 1914.Long after the war is over, and the facts of it have been recorded in histories, one of the most widely known events will be the appearance of St. George and angel-warriors fighting in defense of the British during the retreat from Mons. The papers are full of it and testimony pours in from all sides. Harold Bigbie “On the Side of the Angels” 1915.That was the Battle of Mons. As the opening British engagement of what was to become the Great War, it became endowed in retrospect with every quality of greatness and was given a place in the British pantheon equal to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it.Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August

The Angel of Mons: A World War I Legend

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Singing Bone Press

The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand, a True Crime/Western Graphic Novel Vic Carrabotta, legendary Marvel comic book artist, reads about Earl Durand, and brings the greatest crime spree of Wyoming's history-The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand-back to life and notoriety! What happens: March 13, 1939. Near Cody, Wyoming game wardens stop a car. Inside, Earl Durand, two teen-aged friends, and Emil Knopp, one of the boys' father-and a trunkful of poached elk meat. As the car slows down Durand jumps out, runs into the night, rifle in hand. Eleven days later, March 24, four men dead from Durand's rifle and Earl in a mountain lair where no one can get at him. Two dozen Montana National Guardsmen armed with howitzer and mortar, a dozen posse men-professional hunting guides-, and a plane loaded with dynamite bombs and fire tear-gas canisters-comb the mountain to flush Earl out. It's not over yet. From elk poach to the end. Woe to all who these events touched. Vic read the book when he was 91 and tells the story of what happened in pictures with words from the book. A true Western tragedy pictured by a legendary artist.

The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand: A Graphic Novel

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International

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