California: CA Promotion Committee 1909
Freedman, Marlene. Alcatraz “No Good for Nobody”
California: Smith Novelty Company, 1974
Friedman, Lawrence Meir. Crime and Punishment in American History
New York: Basic Books, 1993
Fuller, James, and Yumi, Gay. Alcatraz: Federal Penitentiary, 1934-1963
California: Asteron Productions, 1985
Gaddis, Thomas E. Birdman of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud
New York: Random House, 1955
Gaddis, Thomas E. Unknown Men Of Alcatraz
Oregon: New Gate Publishing Company, 1977
George, Linda . Alcatraz(Cornerstones of Freedom Series)
Connecticut: Children's Press, 1998
Godwin, John. Alcatraz 1868-1963
New York: Pocket Books, Inc. 1964
Gordon, Dan. Murder In The First (The Story of Henri Young)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995
Gregory, George H. Alcatraz Screw: My Years as a Guard in America’s Most Notorious Prison
Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2002
Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names / The Origin And Etymology Of Current Geographical Names
California: University of California; Berkeley Press; 1960/1962
Hart, Eugene R. A Guide to the California Gold Rush
California: Freewheel, 1993
Heaney, Frank & Machado, Gay. Inside the Walls of Alcatraz
California: Bull Publishing, 1987
Howard Clark . Six Against the Rock
New York: The Dial Press, 1977
Hurley, Donald J. Alcatraz Island: Maximum Security
California: Fog Bell Enterprises, 1989
Hurley, Donald. Alcatraz Island Memories
California: Fog Bell Enterprises, 1987
Johnston, James A. Alcatraz Prison and the Men Who Live There.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949
Johnston, James A. Prison Life is Different.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937
Karpis, Alvin as told to Robert Livesey. On the Rock: Twenty-five Years in Alcatraz
New York and Toronto: Beaufort, 1980
Kemble, John Haskle. San Francisco Bay – A Pictorial Maritime History
New York: Bonanza Books, 1957
Kirkpatrick, Ernest E. Voices of Alcatraz
Texas: The Naylor Company, 1947
Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1972
Lageson, Ernest B. Alcatraz Justice – The Rock’s Famous Murder Trial
California: Creative Arts Book Company, 2002
Lageson, Ernest B. Battle at Alcatraz, A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock
Omaha, NE: Addicus Books, 1999
Landesco, John. Organized Crime in Chicago
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968
Martini, John A. Alcatraz at War
California: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, 2002
Martini, John A. Fortress Alcatraz – Guardian of the Golden Gate
Hawaii: Pacific Monograph, 1990
May, Antoinette. Haunted Houses of California
California: Wide World Publishing, 1990, 1993
Murray, George. The Legacy of Al Capone: Portraits and Annals of Chicago's Public Enemies
New York: Putnam, 1975
Needham, Ted, & Needham, Howard. Alcatraz.
California: Celestial Arts, 1976
Ness, Eliot. The Untouchables
New York: Messner, 1957
Nichols, Nancy Ann. San Quentin – Inside the Walls
California: San Quentin Museum Press, 1991
Odier, Pierre. Rock: A History Of Alcatraz The Fort/The Prison
California: L'Image Odier, 1982
Presnall, Judith Janda. Life on Alcatraz (The Way People Live Series)
California: Lucent Books, 2001
Quillen, Jim. Alcatraz from Inside, The Hard Years, 1942-1952.
California: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, 1991
Redden, Clifford P. I Survived Alcatraz Twice: America's Notorious Flash Bandit
Pennsylvania: [Self Published], 1995
Ruth, David E. Inventing the Public Enemy: the Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Schoenberg, Robert J. Mr. Capone: the Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone
New York: Morrow, 1992
Sobell, Morton. On Doing Time
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974
Stanger, Frank M., and Brown, Alan K. Who Discovered the Golden Gate?
California: San Mateo Historical Association, 1969
Stroud, Robert Franklin. Stroud’s Digest on the Diseases of Birds
Stuller, Jay. Alcatraz – The Prison(Essay originally printed in Smithsonian Magazine)
California: Golden Gate National Parks Association, 1998
Swisher, Carl Brent, Editor. Selected Papers of Homer Cummings, Attorney General of the United States, 1933-1939.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939
Thompson, Erwin N. The Rock: A History of Alcatraz Island, 1847-1972
Denver: US Department of the Interior, 1979
Thompson, Leon (Whitey). Last Train to Alcatraz (alternately titled Rock Hard)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988
Trafzer, Clifford E. California Indians and the Gold Rush
California: Sierra Oaks Publishing Company, 1989
Williams, Nathan Glenn. From Alcatraz to the Whitehouse
Washington: Willjoy Publishing, 1994
Wlodarski, Robert and Anne; Kouri, Michael. Haunted Alcatraz
California: Ghost Publishing, 1998
MOTION PICTURES
Alcatraz Island, Warner Brothers, 1937
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story, NBC-TV (Original Air Date: Nov. 5-6, 1980)
Birdman of Alcatraz, United Artists, 1962
Cell 2455, Death Row, Columbia Pictures, 1955
Chain Gang,Columbia Pictures, 1959
Duffy of San Quentin, Warner Brothers, 1954
Escape from Alcatraz, Paramount Pictures, 1979
Escape from San Quentin, Columbia Pictures, 1957
Murder in the First,
Prison Train,Equity, 1938
Riot in Cell Block 11,Allied Artists, 1954
San Quentin,RKO, 1946 (Not a remake of the 1937 film)
San Quentin,Warner Brothers, 1937
Six Against the Rock,NBC-TV (Original Air Date: May 18, 1987)
MAGAZINES
Cummings, Homer. Why Alcatraz is a Success
Collier’s Magazine, 1939
Esslinger, Michael. Alcatraz – A Brief History
Crime Magazine, 2000