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...goodwill and peaceful coexistence." William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, was there watching and vowing that violence would not be permitted. As lawmen in helicopters surveyed the long lines of demonstrators throughout their 1 1/4- mile march, the arrays of state police and sheriff's deputies enforced those promises and prevented the noisy confrontation from degenerating into a bloody clash. When it ended, the civil rights leaders and their newly aroused supporters headed for home to Atlanta, New York, California...
...Blackburn, a bearded karate instructor who had moved to Forsyth County from California. So he began organizing what he called a walk for brotherhood. Amid threats and lack of support, he called off his plans. Others insisted on going ahead. Soon local Klansmen let it be known that, as Sheriff Wesley Walraven put it, "they want to exercise their rights also...
Most days, Owyhee County Sheriff Tim Nettleton worries more about overladen beet trucks than he does about desperadoes. The slightest reminder, however, turns the Idaho lawman's thoughts back to the frigid January day six years ago, when a quiet trapper named Claude Dallas ruthlessly gunned down two game wardens, instantly creating the Legend of Claude Dallas, and a major migraine for the sheriff. One recent day, as cold winds whistled across the jackrabbit badlands and swirled outside his cramped office, Nettleton kindled yet another cigarette, propped his scuffed cowboy boots on the desk and pondered the renegade Dallas...
Remarkably few neighbors share the sheriff's straightforward sentiment. Dallas, say his cheerleaders, is not a ruthless killer; rather, he's the last American hero, a vestige of the Old West, a virtual Jeremiah Johnson. In a land of thundering silence and splendid isolation, where a trapper can hike for days without stumbling across another's tracks, this version of the story has grown into a powerful myth. Sure, his fans admit, Dallas killed two men on that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains...
Supporters say he belonged to the Old West: he lived by its simple rules of survival. To a point, Sheriff Nettleton agrees, but he must enforce the laws of the New West. "He was an individualist, made his own rules, lived by 'em," the sheriff observes. "But his rules and society's rules aren't the same. He sat around and thought about it, and shot and killed two game wardens." When the New West clashed with the old, Dallas lost...