Excerpts from the Book 'Alcatraz':

... but when I come out to her in the morning, when I feed her and give her water, she still looks beyond me and across the desert. She is waiting for the ...
... and the bit had been chinking and chiding But the end of the trail- Marianne stepped back from the window with the blood tingling in her face. She ...
... were coming out to be paraded for admiration and to loosen their muscles with a few stretching gallops. Each was ridden by his owner, each bore a range ...
... employee to examine his qualifications, but she also remained, in spite of herself, a girl receiving a man. She was glad that no one was there ...
... had been to Alcatraz, like the first calamity falling on Job, the beginning of sorrow and for three years and more he had endured not in patience ...
... far greater than his. He turned his head across the wind and galloped beside the new-strung fence for ten breathless minutes. Then he paused, panting. ...
... never seen in him before she could only tell that she was less than nothing to him. Once she strove to draw back by running a little distance west ...
... place, and then a stream of dim riders darted through the corral gate. All of this, dazed by the misfortune, Marianne waited to see, but as the first ...
... to capture Alcatraz and the mares he led? She swept the forms of the cowpunchers with one of those all-embracing glances of which few great men and ...
... want help! Hervey waited a moment for that heat of defiance to die away. Then he said with the quiet of certainty: No use, Jordan. No use at all. Shorty ...
... his gun. And if Red Perris got his gun the first shot would be for Hervey. Hold on, boys, he called suddenly, above the angry curses of his men, I'm ...
... to a murder. A moment later he began to chuckle behind his set teeth. No wonder they credited the chestnut with a charmed life. As he raced away ...
... he's the wind on four feet. You'll do all this and then give him to me when he's gentled and broken-if that can be done? Then why do you want him? I ...
... still kept his feet in the stirrups and taught him to give lightly to every jar. He fought hard but in time even Red Perris must collapse. But could ...
... In vain, at length, she broke into tears. Either of them would have given an arm to serve her. But in fact they considered they were at that moment ...
... the head of Perris and with that sight a new thought leaped into the brain of the foreman. The bandage, the stumbling walk, the downward head, were all ...
... and now, gazing, apparently, into the distant blue depths of the sky, he regarded vacancy with mild interest and blew in the same direction a thin brownish ...
... them. And Alcatraz tossed his head and struck into a canter. It was a precaution which he never abandoned, for while the Great Enemy was most to be ...
... A yell of wonder rose from Hervey and his charging troop. They had seen Red Jim come battered and exhausted from his struggle with the stallion ...
... mane, but now the bright-colored buildings of the ranch appeared through the trees. They were passing between the deadly rows of barbed wire with far-off ...