Pure Country

What happens when you get two guys who try to disappear?  The answer: "Pure Country".  The title reflects the irony of the word "pure" and the nature of the main characters.  The story is told from the perspective of one of these isolationists who in the end is unable to come to grips with being among people even when he is finally forced to, at the hands of the law.  Convicted of a crime he did not commit, he recounts the events that brought him to his current state.  The reader cannot help but wonder what goes on in his mind and feel at once pity and derision for this individual.