Wyatt Earp
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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed t
Earp and his mother Virginia Ann Cooksey Earp c. 1855
Earp's boyhood home in Pella, Iowa
Looking east from D St. toward 3rd St. in downtown San Bernardino in 1864
Lamar, Missouri, subpoena signed by Constable Wyatt Earp, February 28, 1870
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
Wyatt Earp
…and Morgan or Doc Holliday, which added to his mystique after his death. After leaving Tombstone, Earp went to San Francisco, where he reunited with Josephine Marcus, and they later joined a gold rush to Eagle City, Idaho. In San Francisco, Earp raced horses, but his reputation suffered when he refereed the Fitzsimmons…
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