Pudd'nhead Wilson: Summary Pudd'nhead Wilson takes place on the banks of the Mississippi around the first half of the 1800s in a city called Dawson's Landing. Dawson's landing is a half days journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. Dawson's Landing is on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. Every house in this city contained boxes, which were filled with flowers. When there was room in the box a cat was always there. The protagonist in this story would have to be Pudd'nhead Wilson himself. From the second he moved there he was looked at as a bad man because of his dumb remark about a dog. He made th