"Roswell L. Branson, the proprieto of the Hotel Nasha, is numbered among Montana's early day cowboys and pemanent settlers. He is strickly a man of the West, born at Walla Walla, Washington, August 8, 1864, and he was reared as a farmer there, where the family home had been established in 1858. His father, thomas Banson, was a native of Illinois, and crossed the plains...with his parents...Thomas Branson led a company of volunteers...at the time of the Nez Perce [Indian] outbreak, and the wound which he received...caused his death four years later...Thomas Branson married Amanda Church, who was born in County Clare, Ireland, a daughter of Andrew Church. She was brought to the United States when a child of twelve years, and the family crossed the plains and settled in the Williamette Valley of Oregon. Mrs. Branson...survived her husband many years. Her children were...: Otis P., of Lewiston, Idaho; Roswell L., whose home is in Nashua, Montana; Alfred M., of Kalispell, Montana; Fannie, who became the wife of Almon Jones and died in Umatilla County, Oregon; Ella, who married John Gratz and died in Arizona; Mazine died as Mrs. Bird at Baker City, Oregon; Alta married a Mr. Musgrove, of Walla Walla Valley; Charles e., of Glacier park, Montanta. Mrs. Branson married for her second husband Charles Lewis,and her final home was at Leston, Idaho. .... Mr. Branson was married while in Glasgow, Montana, July 20, 1897, to Miss Rosa Stiler, who was born in Minnestoa in December, 1876. A son, Earl Otis, has been born..." pp. 1118-19 Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921,