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William George Puddefoot

1842–1925

A Congregational pastor and missionary, he wrote with the energy of someone who had spent years traveling, preaching, and meeting people on the American frontier. His books mix lived experience, social observation, and a storyteller’s gift for vivid detail.

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The Minute Man on the Frontier

The Minute Man on the Frontier

by William George Puddefoot

About the author

Born in 1842 and remembered as a British-American Congregationalist pastor and missionary, William George Puddefoot wrote from direct experience rather than from a distance. The surviving record around him is patchy, but the works firmly linked to him include The Minute Man on the Frontier (1895), Hewers of Wood (1903), and Leaves from the Log of a Sky Pilot (1915).

His writing centers on missions, frontier life, and the communities being reshaped by migration and settlement. In The Minute Man on the Frontier, he reflects on the American West and the role of missionaries in fast-changing frontier towns, showing an interest in both everyday hardship and larger social change.

Leaves from the Log of a Sky Pilot was published in 1915 and presented as the life of William G. Puddefoot, suggesting a late-career look back at the work and character that defined him. He died in 1925, leaving behind books that sit at the crossroads of memoir, religious writing, and firsthand frontier history.