[1] A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he spent his missionary period in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Leadville, Colorado.
[4] In the early 1940s, through the writing programs organized by the poet Brewster Ghiselin at the University of Utah, Foote was introduced to a Western literary community.
Foote published his works in a number of literary journals, including American Book Collector, New Mexico Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and Neurotica.
During his professional life, he served as city manager for several Western settlements, including Moab, Utah, which he noted was "in the heart of the Colorado Plateau country where all the uranium is being discovered.
[13] In a review, the publisher Alan Swallow noted that Foote's first book "is composed of experiments in a good many styles by a poet who obviously has not yet found his best method.