"He has so many friends in Nevada, and in the wilderness."--Donna Diehl, a juror in the case of the infamous poacher/killer Claude Dallas, who gets out of prison today.
As mentioned, naturally he is from northern Nevada.
Several related articles are at the link including this piece about public opinion about the convicted killer:
When it comes to Claude Dallas, there's no such thing as middle ground. On one side are those who consider him a draft dodger, game hog and remorseless killer. A man who, instead of being released from prison this weekend, should have been executed.
On the other side of the Dallas abyss are his admirers. To them, he was a proud mountain man who lived by a different set of rules. An Old West throwback defending a vanishing way of life.
Alone in the middle is the real Dallas, who volunteered nothing about himself and became whatever others chose to make of him. The real Dallas was a loner with good manners, a vivid imagination and a mean streak. He wasn't a native Westerner and had few of the attributes of the Old West heroes he emulated. His skills as a trapper were said to have been marginal, and his tool of choice for handling recalcitrant stock was a fist or a club.
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