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Give a Boy a Gun 20th Anniversary Edition

Todd Strasser

“[H]aunting and harrowing.” —

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The MeatEater Podcast

This book, about Claude Dallas, is mentioned in the context of a discussion about the author's writing style and the book's title. The speaker notes that it's an epistolary tale for young adults, expressing uncertainty about its appeal to that demographic.

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Give A Boy A Gun, a true story of law and disorder in the American West. That's the Claude Dallas story.

— Episode: Ep. 432: Hit 'Em Where They Ain't with I...

Episode: Ep. 432: Hit 'Em Where They Ain't with Ian Frazier

This book, about Claude Dallas, is mentioned in the context of a discussion about the author's writing style and the book's title. The speaker notes that it's an epistolary tale for young adults, expressing uncertainty about its appeal to that demographic.

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Give A Boy A Gun, a true story of law and disorder in the American West. That's the Claude Dallas story.

Give A Boy A Gun, not Jack Olson. Strasser Todd.

It's an epistolary tale for young adults by Todd Strasser first published in 2000.

Episode: Ep. 197: Eating Folks in the Arctic

It was mentioned as a book that had previously covered the story of Claude Dallas, but that much more had happened since then that needed to be covered.

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No one's touched it since Jack Olsen or whatever his name was, he wrote Give a Boy a Gun.

Generation Why: True Crime

It details how Claude Dallas treated animals, describing instances of abuse such as hitting cows and dogs with two-by-fours.

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And he wrote a book titled Give a Boy a Gun.

— Episode: Claude Dallas - 463

Episode: Claude Dallas - 463

It details how Claude Dallas treated animals, describing instances of abuse such as hitting cows and dogs with two-by-fours.

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And he wrote a book titled Give a Boy a Gun.

In that book, he details based on interviews how Claude would treat animals and it's not pretty. We're talking about real abuse here, hitting cows, dogs with two by fours, you name it.

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