Claude Dallas

Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is a self-styled mountain man, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of two game wardens in Idaho.

Born in Winchester, Virginia, Dallas' father was a dairy farmer, and he spent most of his childhood in Luce County, Michigan, later moving to rural Morrow County, Ohio, where he learned to trap and hunt game. As a boy Dallas read many books about the old west and dreamed of someday living as the 19th century characters in the books he read did. He graduated from Mount Gilead High School in 1967, then headed out west, hitchhiking most of the way across the United States, finally landing in Oregon where he earned a living as a ranch hand and trapper. Out of contact with his family back east, he was unaware of draft notices mailed to his parents' home ordering him to report for induction into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. When Dallas failed to report for induction into the military on September 17, 1970, the government issued a warrant for his arrest. He was eventually tracked down by the FBI and arrested for draft dodging on October 15, 1973. At trial, the draft board could not prove that Dallas who was working on the remote Alvord ranch, a vast spread in southeastern Oregon, ever knew of the induction letters and the charges were dropped.

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