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Outlaws Clash With Rutter in Montana Jail Break and Pursuit
The tale recounts Harry Rutter and officers quelling a brutal jail escape by Pierce Brown and three others near Glasgow. Rutter refuses to kill, pursues fugitives across Milk and Missouri rivers, and finally fatally wounds Hardy. McKinney and Pierce die as lawmen reclaim order amid a manhunt.
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Arthur J. Jordan
Harry Rutter
Harry
Bill Hardy
Medicine Lake
Snirley
Hardy
Glasgow
Harry Cosner
George Pierce
Brown
Crooked Creek
McKinney
Cosner
Williams
Rutter
Pierce
Dillard
Hinsdale
Wolf Point
Missouri River
Hell Creek
Milk River
Milk
Missouri
South Bank
Snow Creek
Cedars
Darnell Ranch
Charley Hill
Jordan
Bill
Loomis
The
Darnell