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Olsen, Jack Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West New York Delacorte Press (c.1985) First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dj Illustrated by (dj) Robert Brown [good solid copy, faint shelfwear, very light soiling to top edge; jacket shows some wear at spine extremities, minor edgewear here and there, and a couple of insignificant tears]. (B&W photographs) The author examines "the curious relationship between a homicidal young 'mountain man' and those who saw in his colorful ways the embodiment of the cowboy mystique of the West. On a snow-blown day in January 1981, Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. killed two game wardens who entered his trapping and poaching camp in Idaho's Owyhee Desert. The cold-bloodedn ess of Dallas's crime shocked the West. Then Claude Dallas vanished into the wild and rugged mountains that had sheltered him for so long. For fifteen long months he was the subject of an international manhunt until the FBI and a drawling country sheriff joined forces to run him to earth in a rain of bullets. Only then did lawmen learn about the network of friends who had helped him elude capture." Price: 60.00 USD
