Outlaw: The True Story of Claude Dallas

Jeff Long. McGraw-Hill Companies, $4.95 (217pp) ISBN 978-0-07-038690-7

Claude Dallas tried to lead a primitive life in the wilds near the junction of the Nevada-Idaho-Oregon bordersuntil he murdered two game wardens and was sent to prison in 1983. PW observed: ""The story's interest is less in Dallas's saga than in Long's picture of a section of the country that attempts to remain the Old West, but cannot.'' (June)

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