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Word: koffeepot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1987-1987
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Mere mention of Claude Dallas can spark a shoving match in any Great Basin saloon or diner. At the Koffeepot Cafe, several miles from the site of Dallas' trial, Tiny, an Idaho-size chunk of a man, bellows about Dallas while nursing a large RC Cola. His reverence for the poacher scarcely exceeds his antipathy for the law. "Pogue being a sumbitch," Tiny admits, "don't make it right that Dallas shot him in the head after shooting him once." But for Tiny, and others, a blistering rancor justified the first bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: A Killer Becomes a Mythic Hero | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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