Pryor, Alton

Alton Pryor has published fifty-plus books since turning 70 in 1997-many of them about California's past and the colorful characters who rode our trails to fame or infamy. To date he has sold more than 180,000-plus copies of his first book, "Little Known Tales in California History," and has done respectably well with most of his other titles. But until fate derailed his 33-year journalism career, he never aspired to write a book, and certainly never anticipated he would come to be regarded as "Mr. Self-Publishing" by his peers in the Sacramento area. "I would have liked living in the Old West...