SALVATION IN THE SADDLE: 'COWBOY PREACHER' MAKES ROUNDS IN NORTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY

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Saturday, May 22, 1999

The Rev. Mike Harrison is known around Pocahontas as the "Cowboy Preacher." A cowboy hat hangs in his office at the New Bethel Baptist Church and he carries copies of the Cowboy Bible in his saddlebags for visitation rounds on horseback.

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