Claude Dallas & the Shootout at Bull Camp

by Jim Wilson

To some folks Claude Dallas was like a throwback to the days of old-time cowboys and mountain men, the ones who took care of their own business. Others just saw him as trouble looking for a place to happen. Regardless, he has become a part of the latter-day western legend.

Dallas was born in Virginia and grew up in Michigan and Ohio. Intrigued with the West since childhood, he headed that way as soon as he graduated from high school. Finding work as a farm & ranch hand, he eventually gained enough experience to be classed as a buckaroo. In the course of all of this he worked in the area called the ION (Idaho-Oregon-Nevada). Since cowboy work is often seasonal work, Dallas was known to run a trap line during the winter months, selling the hides to put some extra money in his pocket. In the course of all of this, Claude Dallas became quite interested in firearms, owned quite a few, and was reputed to be a better-than-average shot.

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