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EPIC OUTLAW TALE STARTED WITH A SONG

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From: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
Date: 20050729
Author:Karen Cotton

The name Earl Durand usually doesn't come up when people discuss the notorious outlaws, or criminals of the West.

But one author, Jerred Metz of Columbia, S.C., tells the true tale of Durand's life in the 1930s and the last dramatic 11 days of his life in the Powell area when a large posse followed his every move.

The idea for "The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand" came to Metz in 1974 while teaching a class at Webster College in St. Louis.

"We were reading a couple of Zane Grey novels that dealt with the outsider and outlaws," Metz said. "A student in the class came to me and said she ...

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