John Henry Branch

John Henry Branch was born and reared among the cotton farms of West Texas. Early in his childhood he became a “cowboy” at heart with a deep love for horses. With older brothers working on cattle ranches, and Roy and Gene cleaning up the west on TV, he found himself longing to follow in their footsteps. He soon realized of course that those were the dreams of every young boy, and that life had a deeper calling for him. After a four year tour in the Army, with one year served in Viet Nam, he attended Criswell Bible College in Dallas, Texas and earned a BA degree in Bible. Upon graduation in 1979 he answered the call of pioneer missions, and moved his family to Casper, Wyoming to pastor a fledgling church there. He would spend several years in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado working odd jobs to support a wife and three children while pastoring small congregations that were unable to support a full time pastor. He grew to love the West, with all of its’ colorful history, and had a desire to one day share what he saw in that history in the form of a story.