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By 1904, Bolivar’s financial health had revived sufficiently to allow the family to return to Ft. Collins, where Bolivar, ever the entrepreneur, had purchased another real estate and insurance business. Having by this time graduated from Dwight, Allyn enrolled that same year in the Colorado Agricultural College of Ft. Collins and graduated in 1908 with a B. S. in Agricultural Science. His new degree was not the immediate passport to worldly success he probably envisaged, and because he evidently entertained no desire to join his father in business, he spent the next several years ranching with his brother in Wyoming – a meager living, but one enlivened with plenty of shooting. Once he remarked that, so as to reserve their beef for market, prairie-dog potpie (“the equal of any grey squirrel”) became a staple of their diet. By the mid-teens, however, he finally secured a position with the Wyoming Dept. of Agriculture in Big Horn and Washakie Counties, reportedly becoming that state’s first professional agricultural agent. Neither his professional position nor college education would have been deduced by readers of his early articles, however, as Allyn seemed to go out of his way to cultivate the impression that he was merely an ordinary cowpuncher.