title: The Modoc Kid
author: Bannerman, Mark
description: Oregon, 1873. Found guilty of the murder of an American general, Michael Barncho is sentenced to death. However, he survives the gallows in the most bizarre fashion. Dubbed 'The Modoc Kid', he is hunted, hated and feared, as fate leads him along a trail of ordeal and murder that ends with a life sentence to be served in Alcatraz.