You might find it amazing that someone who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years, including almost six and a half years as a Green Beret, would also develop a singular passion for creating custom leather saddles and tack.
But if you take a moment to talk with William “Bill” DeGolyer, founder of Utah Territory Saddle and Tack, based in Taylor, Utah, you’ll learn that a meaningful connection between a straitlaced military career and a creative artisan lifestyle is more than possible.
In 1983, at age 23, DeGoyler enlisted in the U.S. Army shortly after he and his wife, Elizabeth DeGolyer, had their first child. “I went in as an infantryman. I was a ‘grunt.’ I felt like an old man. So many who signed up were younger,” he recalled.
What prompted him to join the Army, at that time?
“That was back in the early ‘80s.
