I imagined Old Branch would have been quite a character in his hay-day. When we first moved to Broomfield there was an ancient cowboy living in a small frame house not too far from the Boulder - Denver Turnpike. His lone frame house was pleasantly nestled in a cool grove of Cottonwoods before the highway was built in the late 1950's, Remnants of a dried out reservoir can still be seen not far from the house foundations.