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Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – December 19, 1944) [1] was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona . Josephine was born in New York to a ...
Dec 11, 2021 · A widow in the 1930s, Josephine Earp set out to finish her memoir, but she did not tell the truth. Instead, she crafted a narrative that hid her wild years and burnished Wyatt’s reputation. The memoir, I Married Wyatt Earp, did not come out until 1976. Editor Glenn Boyar claimed the cover photo showed Josephine Earp in 1880.
Mar 9, 2021 · Horse-thieving policeman Wyatt Earp, hot-tempered dentist Doc Holliday, rabid bulldog-full-of-bull-crap Johnny Ringo, and others either killed their way to immortality or had such outlandishly fabricated reputations that people preferred to believe exciting lies more than boring realities.
Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp led a life equally as colorful as her famous lawman husband, but she struggled for the right to define her own story. Raised in San Francisco, she ran away from home at the age of seventeen to join a travelling acting troupe.
Oct 20, 2023 · When Josephine Marcus Earp died in Los Angeles on December 19, 1944, her small memorial attracted little attention and few visitors. The woman who spent more than 45 years with “The Lion of Tombstone” faded into history penniless, alone and shrouded in the mystery of her own half-truths.
Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode we are looking into the life of Josephine Earp, the common-law wife of the famed lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp...
Sources differ about the exact date of her death, but most hold that Josephine Marcus Earp died on December 19, 1944. She was buried beside her husband in a Jewish cemetery in Northern California, where Wyatt's and Josephine's graves are, today, the primary local tourist attraction.
Feb 28, 2017 · Sometime in the winter of 1882–83 Josephine Sarah “Sadie” Marcus crossed Market Street and stole into San Francisco’s Chinatown to reunite with her lover and hoped-to-be husband, Wyatt Earp.
May 31, 2013 · Book Review: Lady at the O.K. Corral / The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp. “The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a love story, fought over Josephine Marcus, a woman of beauty and spunk barely out of her teens..." says author Ann Kuschner.
Mar 4, 2014 · The author of the acclaimed Sala's Gift delivers a definitive biography of Josephine Marcus Earp, a Jewish woman from New York who became the common-law wife of famed lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp. For nearly fifty years, Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp lived with the most famous lawman of the Old West.
- Ann Kirschner
