Alcatraz is an exciting western novel by the great western author Max Brand that tells the story of a wild horse that was said could not be caught or broken, and the man who was determined to do the impossible. "He was perfect of that type of cowboy which she detested most: handsome, lithe, childishly vain in his dress. About his sombrero ran a heavy width of gold-braid; his shirt was blue silk; his bandana was red; his boots were shop-made beauties, soft and flexible; and on his heels glittered--gilded spurs "