that is older and more tried and true than this. It makes ours look pallid and sickly. Culture? I know old Indians who are more cultured in the real sense of the word than your so-called polished men of the East. All Indians have an inborn sense of courtesy and hospitality toward strangers that would forbid such manners as cultivated strangers have shown me here this morning. The Indians, she told Gertrude Gordon of the Pittsburgh Press, are "true, honest people, in the main, and the men are absolutely trustworthy, which is more than I can say of some of our white men." Other The May 28, 1910, issue of Collier's noted that Farnham "is investigating our great river highways by means of her own motorboat. She runs the Aloha herself, has covered hundreds of miles on the Ohio and its tributaries, and contemplates going down the Mississippi [River] on her next outing." In August 1910, Farnham placed a classified advertisement in the Cincinnati Enquirer to sell a "new motor boat, fully equipped for cruising, size 32x8-1/2 feet; heavy duty engine; cost $1,800; ... at big sacrifice if at once; stored at Havana, Ill. Adress [sic] Miss Beatrice Farnham, South Weymouth, Mass." A newspaper report in 1911 said that Farnham found South Weymouth "deadly dull and [nearby] Boston far too prim. What's more, she was given to shocking folks with her frank, outspoken opinions on men, women and things." After her wedding to John Otto in 1911 (below), she publicized her interest in setting up an "Independence Colony" near Grand Junction, Colorado, where "girls of high society and the daughters of working men will be brought together to be taught new ideals of a sane American life." We will discard corsets, and rats, and puffs, and powder and give the girls the real complexion. Tan is a good asset for anyone, man or woman. . . . Cigarettes and cocktails will be tabooed. Physical appearance In 1911, at age 35, Farnham was "fully six feet tall, athletic, wiry and bubbling over with high spirits." She had a "lithe figure and sun-tanned features" with "snappy eyes and wholesome ways." She dressed as her whim dictated. Whenever she came to a settlement, folks saw that she wore a costume half Indian, half cowgirl. Her skirt, made of leather as soft as silk, was of the divided pattern, fringed and beaded, and deftly