Picture of Dunc Robertson & Sons and Grandma with Gene and Geneva

Because of the loss of Robert and the near death Win and Sid, Dunc and Maude decided to move. Dad said they thought the water was the cause of the illness that affected him and two of his siblings. They moved to West Fork, Montana. Dad said West Fork is as close to the North Dakota border as a person can get without being in North Dakota. They had high hopes of making a good amount of money raising flax. Instead, they lost their shirt.
I am not certain of everything that happened after that, but eventually, the family found their way back to York where Dunc had grown up. They had a mining claim there. They lived in a log cabin with a dirt floor. Dad attended a one room school house.
Doctors did not figure heavily in their existence. When my Dad’s tonsils were giving him trouble, my grandmother painted them with kerosene. Dad was shot in the eye with a homemade arrow. He and his brother Gene were playing cowboys and Indians near the bar. Dad looked through the crack in the chinking between the logs and Gene shot at Dad with the home made bow and arrow. By some fluke, the stick went into my Dad’s eye. My grandmother removed it and covered Dad’s eye. It eventually healed up, although he at terrible vision in that eye. However, two of my daughters both have a right eye that is much more near sighted than their other eye. So who know if the arrow was what really caused the bad vision?