From the July 27, 1884 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“A suit for absolute divorce has been commenced by Xavier Grammer, a middle aged German painter living in Bartlett Street, against his wife Augusta, who is now somewhere on the Rocky Mountain slopes engaged in cattle ranching with a lot of cowboys. At least that is the account of herself which Mrs. Grammer wrote her husband some time ago. The couple were married in 1884, the wife being about fifteen years younger than her husband. Less than a year after her marriage she ran away with one Joseph Pfaender, leaving her child behind. She was abandoned in Detroit by Pfaender, and from that place she wrote her husband a jolly letter, telling him to take good care of the baby. Several letters passed and finally Mr. Grammer received a letter from Walla Walla, in which she told him about crossing the Plains with a party of emigrants, hunting buffaloes, breaking her leg and falling into the hands of some Indians who treated her kindly. She wound up joining the cowboy camp and says she will never return to civilization.”