Josephine Earp
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Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp 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
Pauline Markham, c. 1860s. Josephine said she joined Markham's theater troupe in 1879 in San Francisco before it toured to Arizona, but no record of Josephine or Sadie Marcus as a member of the group has been found.
Johnny Behan in 1871. Josephine said he was "young and darkly handsome, with merry black eyes and an engaging smile."
The first Yavapai County Courthouse and Jail, a wood frame structure, was on North Cortez Street in Prescott.
Tip Top, Arizona Territory, circa 1888
Mattie Blaylock
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Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock was a prostitute who became the romantic companion and common-law wife of Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp for about six years. Knowledge of her place in Wyatt's life
Josephine Earp
…details of her and Wyatt's life in Tombstone. Josephine worked hard to conceal Wyatt's prior relationship to his common-law wife and former prostitute Mattie Blaylock, with whom Wyatt was living when Josephine first met him in 1880. Earp named a mining claim he filed on February 16, 1880 "Mattie Blaylock." While…
Mattie Blaylock
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