D.M. Baker, reported in online records as a 69- or 70-year-old White male deputy sheriff from the Powell-Cody area of Park County, Wyoming, stepped into the path of a widening crisis in March 1939, when local authorities were trying to contain Earl Durand, a young hunter and woodsman whose troubles had begun with a poaching case. After Durand and companions were caught in an out-of-season elk killing near the North Fork of the Shoshone, he was taken into custody in Cody, pleaded guilty to killin
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