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Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – December 19, 1944) 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 Marcus Chose A Life of Adventure
- Moving to Tombstone with Another Man
- The Relationship of Wyatt and Josephine Earp
- Life as The Wife of Wyatt Earp
- Josephine Earp Tells Her Story
Born in Brooklyn in 1861, Josephine Marcus was the daughter of immigrants. Her Jewish parents had moved to the U.S. from Germany, and the year Josephine turned seven, her family movedto San Francisco. While her father ran a bakery, Josephine dreamed of a bolder life. In 1879, when she was still a teenager, Josephine ran off with a theater troupe. “...
While living in Arizona Territory, Earp received mail under the names Josephine Marcus, Sadie Mansfield, and Josephine Behan. But why did she use so many aliases? According to court documents from Prescott, Arizona, Sadie Mansfield began working in a brothel. One of her clients, Sheriff Johnny Behan, grew enamoured with her, and his visits to the b...
In 1881, Tombstone was one of the wealthiest mining towns in the west, where the peace was kept by brothers Wyatt and Virgil Earp. So when a gang tried to take over the town, it was up to the Earps to stop them. What ensued was a shootout at the O.K. Corral on Oct. 26, 1881. The Earps lined up on one side next to Doc Holliday, while their opposers,...
How did Wyatt and Josephine Earp meet, exactly? Neither one ever told the tale – perhaps because both had been in relationships when they met. A year after a jury found him not guilty for the murders at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp chased down the men who later killed his brothers in retaliation in what is now known as his infamous vendetta ride. No...
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. But, in fact, the portr...
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.
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.
- Roger Jay
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.
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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...
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