International studio (81.1925)

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Until the age of fifteen Diederich received the
very best European schooling, first at the Silig
School in Vevey and later at Auchenthaler's in
Lausanne, his vacations being spent in wild moun-
tain excursions, swimming and boating races on
Lake Geneva, or roaming the great Hungarian
estate hunting and living in the open. At the age
of fifteen an untamed spirit, wild, romantic, full
of enthusiasm, he came to America, of all places
to Boston. He and his brother were placed in
school close by at the Milton Academy where
they were sometimes "gaited" much to their dis-
gust after some wild pranks not appreciated in
the rather straightlaced New England school.
Following his instinct for the open spaces, Hunt
Diederich left school in about two years and soon
we find him on the big ranges of Arizona and New
Mexico living the life of a cowboy on his cousin
Cameron Forbes' great ranch in Wyoming. The
old love for animals, under blue canopies, filled
with a sense of driven life and the haunting
unnamed half-forgotten echoes of divinity, came

june 1925

one seventy-one