In the 1960's an Ohio boy drifted West to escape the draft - and to learn the code of men who lived by their guts and their guns. Embracing the cowboy myth, he rode from mountain ranches to dusty desert towns...and then vanished into America's last untamed wilderness and the lawless life of the renegade poacher. His name was Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr. And one snowy January day in 1981 he shot two lawmen down.
Special Edgar Award - winning author Jack Olsen tells the true story of the man some call a murderer, but others revere as one of the last symbols of the West - in a no-holds-barred tale of a killing, a manhunt, and a trial whose verdict shocked the nation.
