Riding to School

From Doyle Argyle

As Dad (Delbert Kynaston Argyle) grew and started school he would tell of riding to school on his horse and horse racing there and back.  This kind of bothered me and one time I said, “Well Dad when you used to ride your horse to school and tie him up all day what would you give him to eat?”  He looked at me as if I was out of my mind and he said, “Well a bucket of grain.”  That’s something that never dawned on me that they would take a bucket of grain to school to feed your horse to get back home again.

(1915 Delbert Kynaston Argyle)

Skiing and Sledding

Notes From Doyle Argyle

Some of Delbert Argyle’s early childhood was spent racing horses, playing in the snow, skiing and sled riding on the old Kynaston hill as many of you remember out on the flat.  Most of these skis, sleds, toboggans and things were home made.  Some of the Kynaston boys became very skilled in making skis.  I remember their well house, which was made of logs.  Above one of the doors there was a gap between the door seal and the top log.  It was just right to soak these skis and put them in there to turn the tips so they made a decent tip to ride down the hill with.  Much of my early memories of having fun with my dad was going to the Kynaston hill and sledging and skiing down this hill.  It wasn’t long and it wasn’t far to climb up and come back down again.  This is what made it fun.

(1915 Delbert Kynaston Argyle)

The Family Home

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

The house I lived in was part log and soon my father added on to it and we all lived in four rooms.  A large kitchen and pantry were two of them.  We fixed the "cutest little front room", so we called it.  The other room was used for sleeping.  We had a cot in the corner of the kitchen and the whole family would rest upon it.  At night it was fixed out for the boys’ bed.

(1914 Ora and Dora Baty)

 

Homesick

From Dora Baty Argyle

After we got lost in the blizzard, we would go to Farmington, Utah, to go to school and leave my father alone on the ranch to feed the animals and live.  I used to get homesick for him.  One time my mother let me come home to the ranch to stay with him for awhile.

 

 

 

Farmington, Utah

 

Bucked Off

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

We used to go to Kelly to go to school.   When the weather was good, we used to ride horses.  We would have too much fun running the horsed with the other kids.  We had a black horse named Bess.  She would jump sideways at everything that she would see.  At this time I had to ride with my older brother, Leslie, and he would say that I would pull him off of the horse when she jumped.  I longed to see him get bucked off when I was not with him.  I will never forget the look on his face when this happened.  He never accused me of it after that.