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Mar 9, 2021 · Josephine Earp: The Truth About Wyatt Earp's Wife. Wikimedia Commons. By A. C. Grimes / Updated: March 9, 2021 3:17 pm EST. Tales of the Wild West are rife with rugged gunslingers who put the "boom" in 'boomtown.'. As iconic locations go, there's no town with a bigger bang for a buckaroo than Tombstone, Arizona.
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.
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.
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.
Wyatt Earp. / 37.67583°N 122.453361°W / 37.67583; -122.453361 ( Wyatt and Josephine Earp's Gravesite) Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone.
May 31, 2013 · Early on Kirschner provides a statement that grabs one’s attention almost as much as that seminude picture of voluptuous Josephine (see cover of the late Glenn Boyer’s controversial 1976 book, I Married Wyatt Earp) that most everyone now agrees is not actually her: “The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a love story, fought over Josephine ...
Apr 4, 2024 · April 4, 2024. Add to History Board Share Print. Back to Articles. Josephine in Arizona Territory in 1880. Wyatt Earp remains one of the most famous figures in the history of the American West. A lawman and a gambler, his life was immortalized in legend, with fact and fiction inextricably woven together.
