decorated with insertions of bright yellow leather. . . . Her hat was always a sombrero, sometimes with a burnt leather band and sometimes with beads. Another writer in the same year noted that Farnham was a "very tall, slender girl, carrying a leather saddlebag rolled and strapped into a package easily handled. On her head she wore a Western sombrero, wide of brim and wound with a leather strap. Another strap passed under the coils of her tightly braided hair," and she used no hatpin. She carried a "beautifully dyed" quirt made of horsehair, which, she said, was "weighted with buckshot and would fell a man if wielded by a strong hand." Marriages To John Otto Farnham and John Otto met in 1910 at a camp in the desert about fifty miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She returned a year later with three friends, where she renewed her friendship with Otto. They became engaged, and, instead of a ring, he gave her a burro named Foxy. She wanted to be married on top of Independence Rock, Colorado, now called Colorado National Monument, but Otto declined because he didn't believe he could find any clergyman who could make the dangerous climb. Instead, the two agreed to be married at the foot of Temple Rock. They were wed June 20, 1911, at the base of Independence Monument "on a narrow ledge a hundred feet from the ground" and reached by a trail sawn out of the solid rock by the bridegroom." She wore a wedding dress of white satin with a veil, the same one worn by her mother and grandmother. (Another source says the gown was her mother's and the veil and scarf were her grandmother's.) After a wedding dinner over a campfire, prepared by the bride, they changed their clothes, and the couple climbed Independence Rock, where they repeated vows "of their own devising." Another report stated: Although newspapers in other regions later reported the wedding had occurred "550 Feet in the Air, on Top of Independence Rock," the wedding actually took place near the base of Independence Monument. But, after the ceremony, Otto and his friend, Whipple Chester, climbed to the top of the spire. Chester, the best man at the wedding, recalled that the wedding site was "about 300 feet from the base of Independence Mountain," where Otto had built an altar about five feet in diameter,