in Nome, Alaska, 112, 123–24
in St. Michael, Alaska, 105
Wyatt Earp and, 104, 105–6
Alliance (ship), 119–20, 255n 119
American West. See also specific cities and states
boomtowns of, 9, 29, 42, 75, 93, 135, 138, 256n 136
common-law marriages in, 37–38, 166–67, 249n 38
ending of the frontier, 3, 87
in films, 151–52, 153, 221, 234
gamblers and, 42, 149
Harper’s short story series and, 87–88
Jewish entrepreneurs in, 42, 70
lawmen of, 42
“manifest destiny,” 34
prostitution in, 7, 36, 42, 47–49, 82, 84–85, 127, 137, 201, 211, 250n 49, 258n 186, 260n 209
Red Mountain Pass, 72–73
Stegner on, 8
television shows about, 222
travel in, 13
travel to California, 1860 to 1870, 17
wagontrains to, 34–35, 249n 34
women’s lives in, 7, 41
women unacknowledged in histories, 6, 50, 164
women with occupations, 47
writings about, 87–88, 175, 183, 199–200, 221 (see also Boyer, Glenn; Frontier Marshal; Helldorado; Sunset Trail, The)
Wyatt Earp as legend, 7, 11, 73, 75, 229
Apaches, 52, 130
Arctic Weekly Sun, 128
Arizona
boomtowns of, 29
Civil War and divisiveness in, 50
Cochise County, 7, 43, 50
at Columbian Exhibition, 87
Indian hostilities in, 52
lawlessness in, 61
Prohibition in, 144
Tombstone as largest city, 28
Arizona Historical Society, 229
Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, 168
Arthur, Chester, 61
Bakersfield, California, 146
Baldwin, Elias Johnson (Lucky), 20, 80–81, 85, 86, 87, 90, 130–31, 132, 144, 256n 136
death of, 142
Josephine Earp’s wedding ceremony story on yacht of, 85, 253n 85
Barra, Allen, 234
Bat Masterson (TV series), 222
Beach, Rex, 102, 107, 108, 113, 118, 125, 134, 170, 254n 97
Bechdolt, Frederick, 6, 164, 167, 168
Behan, Albert, 31, 48, 49, 94–95, 165, 169, 208, 209, 257n 165
Behan, Johnny
Benson stagecoach attackers and, 51
Bisbee stagecoach attackers and, 52
Burns’ description of, 164
business ventures in Tombstone, 31, 32
career after Tombstone, 65–66
character and personality, 44, 65, 79
child and marriage of, 25, 26, 28, 30
Clantons and McLaurys and, 45, 58
as corrupt, 52, 53, 57
cowboys, rustlers, and, 44–45, 52, 53, 57
death of, 66, 148
as Democrat, 32, 44, 51
as Deputy Sheriff, 25
Earp brothers as enemies of, 44
Earp-cowboy war and, 59
end of law career, 65
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and, 7, 56, 148, 154, 179
Ike Clanton and, 58
indictment of Earp for Stilwell murder and, 70–71
Josephine Marcus and, 210, 212, 250n 46
lead-up to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 54
meets Josephine Marcus, 25
relationship with Josephine Marcus ends, 46–47, 48
relationship with Josephine Marcus in Tombstone, 7, 30, 31–32, 41–42, 45, 185
rivalry with Earp, 7, 43–44, 49, 51, 64, 159, 252n 74
as Sheriff, Cochise County, 7, 43–44, 59, 65
Spence as associate of, 52
Stilwell as associate of, 52
syphilis and, 46–47, 250n 46
testimony at trial following Gunfight, 58, 59
as womanizer, 30–31, 46, 186, 250n 46
wooing of Josephine Marcus, 26–28
Behan, Victoria Zaff, 30–31
Belasco, David, 20, 21, 248n 21
Belle of the Yukon (film), 214
Benjamin, Israel Joseph, 18–19
Benjamin of Tudela, 18
Benson, Arizona, 13, 28
stagecoach robbery and murder, 51–52
Bisbee, Arizona, 43, 177
stagecoach robbery, 52
Black Thursday and stock market crash of 1929, 179
Blaylock, Celia “Mattie” (see Earp, Mattie Blaylock)
“Blond Beauties” (Thompson), 23
Borland, Addie, 47, 63, 190
Boyer, Glenn, 11, 230–37, 262n 233, 262n 234
Clum manuscript and, 235–36
Brainerd, Erasmus, 100, 116, 254n 100
Breakenridge, William “Billy,” 6, 50, 65, 165–69, 178, 186, 192, 200
Brown, Clara Spalding, 39–40
on “Cowboy and Earp Feud,” 60
on cowboys, 43
departure from Tombstone, 67
fire in Tombstone and, 45
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral described, 55
report on cowboys’ funeral after Gunfight, 56–57, 59
reports to San Diego Union, 39–40, 45–46, 47
on saloons and brothels, 48
on Stilwell killing, 64–65
Burnett, William R., 184
Burns, Walter Noble, 6, 44, 50, 161–62, 167, 168, 178
description of Wyatt Earp, 33
Cashman, Nellie, 47, 200
Cason, Ernest, 201, 205, 214, 227, 231, 236
Cason, Leonard, 204, 205, 231
Cason, Mabel Earp, 8, 10, 11, 127, 137, 201–3, 208–15, 218, 222–27, 231, 233, 236, 248n 19, 260n 213
Cason, Rae, 204, 205, 215
Cason, Walter, 8–9, 11, 203, 222
Chaplin, Charlie, 152
City of Seattle (ship), 93
Civil War
common-law wives and pensions, 38, 139
divisiveness in Tombstone and, 50
Earp brothers in, 34, 50
Claiborne, Billy, 55
Clanton, Billy, 54, 56
Clanton, Ike, 59
charges and trial following Gunfight, 57–59
Earp bribes into turning over Benson killers, 52, 58
Earp-cowboy war and, 61
Earp saves him during Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 56, 59
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 55, 56
lawsuit against Earp, 59–60
lead-up to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 53–54
Clanton, Phin, 251n 63
Cleveland (ship), 115
Cleveland, Grover, 87
Cline, Edward F., 215
Clum, John, 29, 45, 59, 65, 148, 156, 165, 168–69, 173, 175, 178, 187, 192, 199–200, 202, 208, 247n 13
in Alaska, 128, 255n 128
death of, 193
description of Wyatt Earp, 33
manuscript, 231, 235–36, 262n 234
Clum, Mary Ware, 247n 13
Coburn, Walter, 170, 215–16
Cody, William “Buffalo Bill,” 87, 201
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Earp brothers in, 75
White Elephant saloon, 75
Wyatt Earp as deputy sheriff, 75
Cohn, Alice, 218, 219
Colton, California, 74
Columbian Exhibition (1893), 86–88
Buffalo Bill Cody at, 87
Earp’s horse races at, 87
cowboys
appearance of, 10
Behan and, 7, 52, 53
“buffaloing” of, 36
cattle thievery in Tombstone and, 44–45
communities’ reaction to, 36
defined as villains, rustlers, outlaws, 43
Earp-cowboy war, 59–64
funeral in Tombstone, 56–57
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and, 55–56, 179
in Tombstone, 10, 43, 169
Wister’s The Virginian, 88
Cowing, Estes Joseph, 145
Cowing, Marjorie (Lehnhardt), also Marjorie Macartney, 145, 148
Crabtree, Annie Leopold, 166, 208
Crabtree, Jack, 166
Crabtree, Lotta, 166
Crummy, George W., 71, 252n 71
Daily Alta California newspaper, 17
Dawson, Alaska, 95, 102, 108, 125–26
DeMille, Cecil B., 151
Dempsey, Jack, 113
Denver, Colorado
Doc Holliday in, 76
Tabor or Windsor Hotel, 72, 76, 252n 72
Wyatt and Josephine Earp in, 72, 76, 87
Denver Republican, 87
Dexter, John, 113
Dodge, Fred, 178, 187, 192, 200
Dodge City, Kansas, 36, 37, 152, 182, 208
Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in, 37
Ford County Historical Society, 10
Historical Society, 236–37
Long Branch saloon, 73
museum, 227
War Peace Commission, 73
Wyatt Earp returns, 1883, 73–74
Dodge City Globe, 192
Doheny, Edward, 171, 176, 181, 214, 257n 171
Dubin, Rabbi Maxwell, 218
Dunbar, Emma, 46
Dunbar, John O., 31, 32, 41–42, 46
Dwan, Alan, 152, 153
Earp, Alvira “Allie” Packingham Sullivan, 38, 56, 61, 62, 77, 138–40, 205–6, 209
on Josephine Earp, 50
life of, 41
memorabilia provided by, 183
opinion of Wyatt, 41
sewing machine and money earned, 40
Waters’s book and, 206, 207–8, 228–29
Earp, Aurilla Sutherland, 35, 211
Earp, Bessie, 37, 63
daughter of, 42, 250n 42
as former madam, 36, 42
Earp, Celia “Mattie” Blaylock
as common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, 37, 38, 41, 56, 60, 63–64, 71, 164, 185, 186, 187, 211, 249n 37
death of, 84–85, 206
truth emerges about, 227–28, 236
Earp, Hattie (Catchim), 42, 250n
Earp, James, 34
brothels in Peoria, 36
common-law wife Bessie, 36, 37, 42, 63
Earp, Josephine Sarah Marcus, 27–28, 197
as actress and runaway, 1879, 13, 14, 22–26, 145, 186, 210, 212
appearance, 4, 5, 13, 14, 75, 136–37, 140, 141, 200, 214–15
Bat Masterson and, 72
birth of, 3, 5, 15, 247n 5
Breakenridge’s book about Wyatt Earp and, 169
Burns’ book about Wyatt Earp and, 161–63
canary, “Dickie,” 73
character and personality, 4, 6, 19–20, 22, 91–92, 102, 104, 143, 147–48, 176, 180, 181, 187–88, 190, 203, 205, 211, 223, 224, 237–38
childhood in San Francisco, 18–21
childhood journey from New York to San Francisco, 18
at Columbian Exhibition, 86–87
death of, 218
death of sister Hattie, 195, 196, 197, 215
Doc Holliday and, 70, 76
fabrications by, 3, 5, 8, 11, 18, 26–27, 85, 210–11, 236
family and, 3–4, 14–20, 147–48, 197
final possessions, 217
Flood’s biography of Wyatt Earp and, 154–61
gambling and, 4, 8, 81, 83, 127, 141, 149, 180, 255n 120, 257n 171
grief over Wyatt’s death, 179, 181
historical sources for, 2, 7, 10–12
income and finances, 31, 32, 46, 124, 132, 135, 146, 170, 171, 180–81, 192–93, 199, 202, 214, 217, 218–19, 257n 171
Johnny Behan wooing of, 25–28
Judaism of, 1–2, 4, 21, 42, 176, 204, 218
Lake biography of Wyatt Earp and, 171, 172–73, 182–94, 210
last years of, 179–219
lawsuit against niece over oil royalties, 196–97, 205, 214, 259n 196, 260n 214
love of adventure, 5, 14, 21, 24, 91–92, 112
love of children, 94
Lucky Baldwin and, 20, 80–81, 129–30
memoirs of, 8, 10–11, 63, 200–203, 208–16, 222–27, 248n 19, 260n 213
memorabilia of Wyatt Earp’s and, 198, 216
mining claims, 139, 180–81, 205, 207, 216
obituary, 218
as “Sadie” vs. “Josie,” 5–6
in San Francisco, 1880, 27
inaccurate accounts about, 225–26, 229
secrets of, 7–8, 26, 84–85, 142, 164, 185, 199, 206, 213, 227
self-invention, 9, 21
shaping of public face and legend of Wyatt Earp, 7, 35, 150–51, 154–61, 171, 179, 183–94, 210–13, 215–16, 238
siblings, 15, 69, 142
singing and dancing lessons, 23, 210
social discrimination and, 21, 41–42, 106, 125
as stagestruck, 20, 23
St. Vitus’s dance illness, 27
will of, 197, 216–19
Tombstone and, 7
affair with Wyatt Earp, 49–50, 63, 186
arrival, 1880, 13–14, 28–30, 247n 13
Behan and, 7, 28, 30, 31–32, 41–42, 43–44, 45, 164, 185, 210, 212
Behan relationship ends, 46–47, 48, 250n 46
Behan’s son Albert and, 30, 31, 48, 94–95, 165, 210
departure from, 7, 63, 251n 63
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and, 3, 6–7, 10, 12, 56, 58–59
house in, 32, 250n 46
meets Wyatt Earp, 49
prostitution suspicions, 48–49, 186, 209, 258n 186, 260n 209
return to, 1937, 208–9
shadow of events, on her life, 7–8, 74, 127, 142, 148
social status, 41–42
Wyatt Earp years, 89
in Alaska, 93–134
begins using name “Mrs. Earp,” 1883, 74, 252n 74
camp at Vidal, California, 140, 165, 173, 194
crossing Red Mountain Pass, 72–73
defense of Wyatt, 128, 143, 148, 150, 154
devotion to Wyatt, 202
dislike of his “sporting life,” 113, 137
domestic disputes, 82–83, 203
first home, Rampart, Alaska, 97–98
gifts from Wyatt, 79
in Goldfield, Nevada, 138–40
horseracing and, 79–82, 84, 85–86
jealousy and other women, 82, 202–3
length of marriage, 7, 9
in Los Angeles, Wyatt’s final years and death, 151–73
marital tensions, Nome, 126–27
marriage as common-law, 4, 71, 92
nomadic life, 74–76, 135–44
in Nome, Alaska, 107–15
parents’ and, 71
pregnancy and miscarriage, 94, 95, 101, 102, 253n 94, 254n 94
in Rampart, Alaska, 96–104, 254n 97
in San Diego, 76–84, 252n 82
in San Francisco, 1882, waiting for Earp, 68, 69–71
in San Francisco, living with Earp, 85–88, 90–91
in Seattle, Washington, 116–17
separation, summer of 1883, 73–74
in St. Michael, Alaska, 104–7
in Texas, 75
in Tonopah, Nevada, 135–38
in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho, 71–73
wagons and supplies, life on the road, 136–37
wedding ceremony story by, 85, 253n 85, 253n 94
Wyatt’s infidelity, 127, 202–3
in Yuma, Arizona, 89–90, 92
Earp, Louisa Houston, 37, 38, 56, 60, 249n 38
Apache threat described by, 52
Earp, Morgan, 37, 38, 156
common-law wife Louisa, 37, 38, 249n 38
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 55, 56
killing of, 61–62, 208–9, 251n 61, 251n 63
lead-up to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 54
as shotgun messenger for Wells Fargo, 28
Earp, Newton, 34
death of, 174, 257n 174
Earp, Nicholas, 34, 37, 38
death of, 142
Earp, Sally. See Haspel, Sally
Earp, Virgil, 32, 33, 34, 37, 41, 53, 128
Benson stagecoach attackers sought by, 51–52
common-law wife Alvira “Allie,” 38, 41, 61, 62, 206
death of, 139, 256n 139
as deputy U.S. marshal, 38, 51
in Goldfield, Nevada, 138–39
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 55, 56
Happy Days mines and, 139, 181, 207
lead-up to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 53–54
in San Diego, 77
in San Francisco, 71
shooting of, 61, 208
wife, Jane Sysdam, 256n 139
Earp, Virginia Cooksey, 34, 37, 38
Earp, Warren, 127–28, 255n 119
Earp, William Harrison, 201
Earp, Wyatt, 126–27
accident in San Francisco, 93, 94
Alaska Commercial Company and, 104, 105–6
appearance, 5, 10, 32–33, 71, 87, 140–41, 152, 156
as archetype, 7
arrests in Peoria, 36
Bat Masterson and, 7, 33, 35, 73, 78–79, 148–49, 154
biography by Flood, 154–61, 171–72, 233, 261n 232
biography by Lake, 170–73, 183–94 (see also Frontier Marshal)
birth of, 34
Breakenridge book about, 165–69 (see also Helldorado)
brothers of, 2, 24, 32–34, 41, 174 ( see also Earp, Morgan; Earp, Virgil)
brothers’ wives and, 33
bunco scheme arrest, 142–44
Burns’ book about, 161–63, 168
carrying a weapon and, 90, 91
character and personality, 7, 9, 32, 33, 41, 44, 72, 78–79, 147, 148, 156, 170, 172, 228, 230, 256n 148
Cochise County sheriff position sought by, 51
common-law wife Mattie Blaylock, 37, 38, 41, 56, 60, 63–64, 68, 71, 74–75, 84–85, 185, 186, 187, 211, 212, 227–28, 249n 37
common-law wife Sally Haspel, 36, 249n 36
dark years following Aurilla’s death, 35–36
death and final year of, 170–75
death of brother, Morgan, 61–62, 251n 61, 251n 63
death of brother, Newton, 174, 257n 174
death of brother, Virgil, 139, 256n 139
death of brother, Warren, 127–28, 255n 119
definition of justice, 79
Doc Holliday and, 37, 70, 76, 156, 249n 37
fame of, 7, 8, 113, 117, 124, 135, 143, 197–99, 221
family and ethnic heritage, 34–35
fight-fixing scandal, 90–91, 117, 143, 253n 91
Flood as legal advisor, 143–44, 155, 180–82 ( see also Flood, John)
friends of, 7, 103, 140, 153, 171, 173, 175–76, 178, 182, 192, 193, 208 (see also specific people)
funeral, 175–76, 258n 176
gambling and, 32, 35, 37, 39, 60, 76, 77, 80, 82, 97, 100, 113, 117, 137, 142–43, 149, 180, 254n 119
George Hearst and, 43, 75, 151
grave of, 1, 4, 176, 218, 221, 258n 176
Hollywood and, 152–56, 160, 176
horseracing and, 79–82, 84, 85–86, 153
income and finances, 60, 70, 81, 113, 117, 124, 132, 135, 146, 147, 171, 195, 196, 256n 146
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