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Mattie Crawford
1886–1973
A Pentecostal evangelist and missionary, she wrote a vivid firsthand account of traveling through Central America on mule back to preach the Gospel. Her work captures hardship, zeal, and the everyday realities of early 20th-century mission life.
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On Mule Back Thru Central America with the Gospel
by Mattie Crawford
About the author
Born in 1886, Mattie Crawford was an American evangelist best known for On Mule Back Thru Central America with the Gospel, a missionary memoir first published in 1922. The book recounts her experiences preaching in Central America with her family and helped preserve a personal view of Pentecostal mission work in that era.
Crawford’s writing is direct and energetic, focused on travel, faith, and the practical challenges of life on the mission field. Later local histories also remember her as a revival preacher whose meetings influenced churches in places such as Idaho, showing that her ministry reached beyond the pages of her book.
She died in 1973. Although many details of her life are not widely documented in major reference works, her memoir remains a notable record of early evangelical and missionary experience.