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Jul 11, 2024 · The wife of Wyatt Earp following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881, Josephine Marcus Earp led a life shrouded in mystery until decades after her death in 1944. C. S. Fly/Wikimedia Commons A portrait of Wyatt Earp’s wife, Josephine Earp, in 1881, the year they met. She went by several names: Josephine Marcus, Sadie Mansfield, and ...
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 ...
Pete Spence. v. t. e. John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851 [citation needed] – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events surrounding and his participation in the Gunfight at the O ...
Mar 31, 2022 · On December 28, 1881—just two months after the gunfight—Virgil Earp was badly wounded on the streets of Tombstone. On March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp was shot to death while playing pool with Wyatt at an Allen Street saloon/billiard parlor. Wyatt decided it was time to get the hell out of Dodge, er, Tombstone. The “Flight” of the Earps ...
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. A brief three-paragraph obituary in the Los Angeles ...
Aug 11, 2017 · John Henry “Doc” Holliday, by contrast, is portrayed as a profligate, cold-blooded yet charming killer dying of tuberculosis who, nonetheless, is devoted to Wyatt. The contrast energizes the legend but leaves unanswered how two such different men could become friends in the first place. They met in Fort Griffin, Texas, in the winter of 1877 ...
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Jun 28, 2017 · Enter Sadie Marcus. The Earp clan followed the mining boom west to Tombstone in 1880, where Wyatt would meet his next love interest unbeknownst to Blaylock — Josephine Sarah “Sadie” Marcus ...
