Arthur W. Allen, pastor, educator, traveler, church planter, rockhound and hunter, wrote a short biography in 1986. His memories and recollections of Gospel work in Montana and Minnesota included radio, youth work, camps, travels to Bible lands, photography, music, rock collecting, hunting and involvement in the organization of more than sixty-four churches. He spent twenty-five years under the Big Sky of Montana and Wyoming and another seventeen as Executive Secretary of the Minnesota Baptist Association. His oldest son, Robert A. Allen, has taken the information from that short volume, edited and expanded the book and added numerous pictures to the historical record.