Paul Krebill

A five decade Montanan, Paul Krebill has been fascinated with small town life on the plains and in the mountain valleys of his state. Paul Krebill grew up in the Midwest and received his formal education in the greater Chicago area. He worked his way through college and graduate school as a bellman in a suburban hotel. Ordained as a Presbyterian pastor, he served congregations in Wyoming and Montana where fascination with the history of the American West and his study of particular social and economic factors on the Great Plains have been of special interest. During the course of his career as a clergyman, he served as temporary pastor of a rural parish on the South Island of New Zealand and he has been a campus minister. He has worked in hospital chaplaincy, as well as on the staff of a large conference center on Lake Tahoe in Nevada. His experiences in these settings as well as in his life and work in Wyoming and Montana have provided the background and inspiration for his books. He lives in Bozeman, Montana with his wife, Doris.