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Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp

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by Ann Kirschner


  in Lamar, Missouri, 35

  as legend, 7, 11, 73, 75, 229

  as “Lion of Tombstone,” 33, 163

  Lotta Crabtree estate case and, 166–67

  loyalty of, 37, 41, 76, 161

  marriage to Aurilla Sutherland, 35, 211

  memorabilia, 198, 216

  men killed by, 70

  police work, 36, 75, 137

  portrayed as teetotaler, 158

  prizefighting and, 124, 138

  prostitution and, 36, 82, 127, 137, 211

  as Republican, 44, 50

  reputation of, 64, 91, 128, 199

  as saloonkeeper, 59, 75, 113, 117, 122, 124, 126, 130, 132, 133, 135–38, 144, 171, 255n 133

  inaccurate accounts about, 148, 149, 200 (see also Helldorado; Pioneer Days in Arizona)

  ship named for, 197–99

  television series about, 222

  in Texas, 75

  Tom Mix and, 153, 173–74

  Wells Fargo Company and, 38–39, 52, 70, 75, 149

  Josephine “Sadie” Marcus Earp years, 135

  in Alaska, 93–134

  builds tree house for Josephine, 140

  camp at Vidal, California, 140, 165, 173

  domestic disputes, 82–83, 203

  final years in Los Angeles, 151–73

  gifts to Josephine, 79

  in Goldfield, Nevada, 138–40

  infidelity and, 127, 202–3

  Josephine begins using name “Mrs. Earp,” 1883, 74

  Josephine’s gambling and, 81–82

  length of marriage, 7, 9

  in Los Angeles, final years and death, 151–73

  marital tensions, Nome, 126–27

  marriage as common-law, 4, 71, 92

  nomadic life, 74–76

  in Nome, Alaska, 107–15

  in Rampart, Alaska, 96–104, 254n 97

  in San Diego, 76–84, 252n 82

  in San Francisco, 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

  treatment of Josephine, 141, 202, 203

  in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho, 71–73

  in Yuma, Arizona, 89–90, 92

  Tombstone years:

  affair with Josephine Marcus, 49–50, 63, 186

  arrives in Tombstone, 1879, 24, 32

  Behan rivalry with, 43–44, 49, 51, 252n 74

  Benson stagecoach attackers sought by, 51–52

  brother Morgan killed, 61–62

  brother Virgil shot, 61

  business ventures in Tombstone, 38–39, 59, 65

  charges and trial following Gunfight (Spicer hearing), 57–59

  Cochise County sheriff position sought by, 43–44

  departure from, 66

  as deputy U.S. marshal, 61

  Earp-cowboy war, 59–64

  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 2–3, 12, 55–56, 66, 127–28, 148

  Ike Clanton and, 52, 56, 58

  killing of Frank Stilwell, 63, 70–71, 154

  lead-up to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 51–54

  meets Josephine Marcus, 49

  as Pima County Deputy Sheriff, 51

  as shotgun messenger for Wells Fargo, 38

  Vendetta Ride, 64–66, 70, 148, 154, 168

  Earp Brothers of Tombstone, The (Waters), 228–29

  Edwards, Adelia, 235

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 261n 220

  Elder, “Big Nose” Kate, 37, 52, 57, 74, 190, 199, 228, 231

  Ellsworth, Lincoln, 197–99

  Ephron, Nora, 4

  Epitaph (newspaper). See Tombstone Epitaph

  Fairbanks, Douglas, 153

  Fitch, Tom, 57–58, 77

  Fitzsimmons, Bob, 90–91, 124, 253n 91

  Flood, John, 256n 143

  biography of Wyatt Earp, 154–61, 169, 171–72, 233, 261n 232

  as executor and beneficiary, 216, 217–19

  Gilchriese’s book and, 224–26

  loyalty of, 180–82, 214, 215

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp and, 11, 143, 147, 148, 149–50, 160, 162–65, 175, 176, 183, 189, 195, 215, 219, 224–25, 258n 175

  Ford, John, 152

  Frank, A. L., 218

  Fremont, John C., 44

  Frontier Marshal (film), 193–94

  Frontier Marshal (Lake), 191–94, 197, 199, 213, 215, 228, 230, 231, 259n 191

  giveaway to WWII soldiers, 221, 261n 220

  new edition for teenage readers, 222

  royalties, 182, 192, 193, 195, 197, 199, 207, 216, 221–22

  Galveston, Texas, 74, 252n 74

  Gannett, Leslie, 192

  Geronimo, 130

  Gilchriese, John, 222–27, 231, 236, 261n 225

  Glenwood, Colorado, 76

  Globe, Arizona, 74–75

  Goldfield, Nevada, 9, 138–40

  death of Virgil Earp in, 139

  Earp brothers in, 138–40

  New Northern Saloon, 138

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp in, 138–40

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp’s claims, Happy Day Mines, 139, 181, 207

  Goldfield News, 139

  Goodfellow, George, 48, 62

  Gosper, John, 52–53, 59

  Grauman, Sidney, 93, 125, 152, 204, 218

  Greenberg, Alice, 233

  Groton school, 40

  Gump, Solomon, 16

  Halliwell, Hildreth, 139, 206–7, 208, 256n 146, anti-Semitism of 260n 206

  Hammond, John Hays, 137, 148

  Harper, Thomas, 176

  Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 87–88

  Hart, William S., 7, 153–54, 155, 160–61, 162, 164, 170, 173, 174, 175, 182, 185, 190, 196, 202, 209, 216, 217, 218

  Haspel, Sally, 36, 211, 249n 36

  Hatch, Bob, 62, 208

  Hatton, Charles, 33

  Hearst, George, 7, 43, 75, 151, 215

  Hearst, William Randolph, 150–51, 215

  Helldorado (Breakenridge), 167–69, 173, 200

  Hera (ship), 115–16

  Hirsch, Dora, 23–24

  HMS Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan), 22, 23, 204

  Markham “Pinafore on Wheels” Troupe, 24–26, 145, 186, 210

  Holliday, John Henry “Doc,” 2, 7, 37, 156, 161, 175

  Bat Masterson and, 37, 71

  “Big Nose” Kate and, 37, 52, 57, 190

  Boyer book about, 230, 233, 262n 233

  Burns’ description of, 163–64

  charges and trial following Gunfight, 57–59

  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 55, 56

  illness and death of, 76

  implicated in Benson killing, 52

  “Jew boy” comment, 71, 252n 71

  lead-up to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 54

  saves Wyatt Earp’s life, 37

  Wyatt Earp and, 37, 70, 76, 249n 37

  Hollywood and film industry, 151–54

  Josephine Earp as “technical consultant,” 204, 214

  westerns, 151–52, 153, 204, 219, 221

  Wyatt Earp and, 152–56, 160, 176, 234

  Hooker, Forrestine, 155, 231

  Hooker, Henry Clay, 155

  Hoover, Herbert, 113

  Horton, Alonzo, 77, 83

  Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, 78

  Houghton Mifflin, 167, 168, 169, 178, 182, 191, 209, 212, 216, 231

  Josephine Earp at, 189

  Hoxsie, Charlie, 113, 114–15, 118, 133, 134

  Hunsaker, William J., 77, 83, 148, 172, 175, 179, 193, 252n 77

  Hunt, George, 179

  Huntington Library, 11

  Idaho

  boomtown of Coeur d’Alene, 75

  Kootenai County, Earp as sheriff, 75

  silver fields, 72, 75

  Illustrated Life of Doc Holliday, The (Boyer), 230, 233

  I Married Wyatt Earp (unpublished ms.), 10–11

  I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine
Sarah Marcus Earp (ed. Boyer), 11, 232–34, 262n 233, 262n 234

  Inventing Wyatt Earp (Barra), 234

  Israel, Sol, 42, 49, 65, 156

  It All Happened in Tombstone (Clum), 199–200

  Jackson, Joseph Henry, 192

  Jaffa, Henry, 70

  Jones, Harry, 27, 30, 42, 48, 49

  Jones, Ida “Kitty,” 27–28, 30, 42, 48, 208

  Judaism

  anti-Semitism in America, 6, 206, 260n 206

  assimilation and, 14

  Eastern European Jews, 14–15, 248n 14

  Israel Benjamin as commentator on Jewish life, 18–19

  Jewish community of New York City, 15, 248n 14, 248n 16

  Jewish community of Nome, Alaska, 125–26

  Jewish community of San Francisco, 4, 16–17, 20–21, 248n 16

  Jewish community of Tombstone, 42

  Jewish financing of Alaska mining supplies and ventures, 96, 125–26

  of Josephine Earp, 1–2, 4, 21, 147, 204, 218

  in 19th century Prussia, 14–15

  prejudices of German Jews against Eastern European Jews, 3, 15, 19, 20–21, 248n 19, 248n 20

  Wyatt Earp and, 147

  Kelley, Florence Finch, 191–92

  Kent, Ira Rich, 168, 187, 189, 190, 193

  Labatt, Abraham, 17

  Laing, Jeanne Cason, 202–4, 205, 225, 231–32, 234, 236–37

  Lake, Stuart, 228, 230, 257n 170

  Josephine Earp’s memoirs and, 213, 216, 219, 223, 224

  omission of women or wives from Frontier Marshal , 190

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp and Frontier Marshal, 11, 49, 50, 170–73, 176, 179, 182, 183–94, 195, 198, 207, 208, 210, 211, 214, 219, 221–22, 224

  Langtry, Lily, 78

  Law and Order (film), 193

  Lazard Frères, 16

  Lehnhardt, Edna (niece), 145, 146, 180, 196–97, 209, 214, 217, 259n 196, 260n 214

  Lehnhardt, Emil (brother-in-law), 69–70, 71, 74, 91, 142

  suicide of, 145, 209

  Lehnhardt, Emil, Jr.(nephew), 137, 196

  Lehnhardt, Henrietta “Hattie” (sister), 15, 20, 69–70, 74, 76, 85, 91, 137, 142

  as businesswoman, 146

  closeness with Josephine, 146–47, 179–80, 195, 215

  death of, 195, 196, 197

  Earp’s funeral and, 176, 258n 176

  monthly subsidy to the Earps, 146, 171, 195, 196, 256n 146

  Leussler, Harrison, 178, 185–86, 187, 209–10, 212, 213, 214, 260n 213

  Levy, Harriet Lane, 248n 20

  Lewellen, John and Annie, 48, 251n 63

  Lewellen, Sarah, 182, 195, 214

  Lewis, Alfred Henry, 175, 183

  Lewis, Jefferys, 72

  Libby, David, 107–8

  Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The (TV series), 222

  Lindeberg, Jafet, 104, 108

  Lockwood, Frank, 155, 200

  London, Jack, 94, 113, 157, 223

  Los Angeles, California, 9, 136, 138

  Hollenbeck Hotel, 79

  horseracing and, 79

  Josephine Earp’s final years in, 205, 214, 217–18

  Wyatt Earp’s arrest in, 142–44

  Wyatt Earp’s final years in, 170–73

  Los Angeles Express, 135

  Los Angeles Herald, 148

  Los Angeles Times, 171

  article about Earp and retraction, 149–50

  “Lurid Trails Are Left by Olden-Time Bandits” (Scanland), 149

  Macartney, Felton, 222

  Maddox, Mrs. Lon, 217, 219

  Madison Square Garden, New York City, 138, 174

  “manifest destiny,” 34

  Mansfield, Sadie, 31, 48, 70, 185, 258n 186

  Marcus, Hyman (father), 14, 15, 27, 248n 14

  death of, 85

  Marcus, Moses (grandfather), 15

  Marcus, Nathan (brother), 15, 69, 125, 127, 128, 133, 142

  Marcus, Sophia Lewis (mother), 14, 15, 27, 85, 102, 142, 248n 14

  death of, 145

  obituary, 17, 145

  Markham, Pauline, 23, 25, 26, 47, 145, 186, 210, 249n 23

  “Pinafore on Wheels” Troupe, 23–26, 145, 186, 210

  Marquis, O. H., 227

  Martin, Al, 136, 137, 138

  Masterson, Bat, 7, 156, 175, 186, 257n 170

  appearance, 72

  description of Wyatt Earp, 33, 149, 211

  dislike of Doc Holliday, 37, 71

  friendship with Wyatt Earp, 71, 73, 78–79, 148–49, 154

  Josephine Earp and, 35, 72

  meets Wyatt Earp, 35

  Stuart Lake and, 170

  Masterson, Emma, 72, 73, 183

  Mayo, Al, 96, 97, 104

  Mayo, Maggie, 97, 102, 104

  McCarthy, Lottie and Nellie, 23–24

  McCarthy Dancing Academy, 23–24, 210

  McKenzie, Alexander, 130, 131–32

  McKinley, William, 132

  McLaury, Frank, 54, 74

  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 55, 56

  McLaury, Tom, 53–54

  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 55, 56

  McLaury, Will, 58, 60, 74

  Menckens, Adah Isaac, 20

  Miller, Bill, 154–61, 229–30

  Miller, Estelle Josephine, 229–30

  Mix, Tom, 7, 153, 173–74, 175, 176, 257n 153

  Mizner, Wilson, 103, 113, 125, 173, 175

  Morey, Jeff, 11

  Mudd, Seeley Wintersmith, 256n 143

  Muir, John, 93

  My Darling Clementine (film), 219

  Nevitt, Wilfrid and Bessie, 214, 217, 218, 219

  New York City

  birth of Josephine Marcus, 3, 5, 15, 247n 5

  conditions of poor in, 15–16

  education of immigrants, 16

  Five Points neighborhood, 15, 17

  Jewish community in, 15, 248n 14, 248n 16

  Jewish newspapers in, 16

  Marcus family in, 15–16, 17, 247n 5

  New York Herald, 149

  New York Herald Tribune, 192

  New York Times, 133, 198

  New York Tribune, 128

  Nome, Alaska, 9, 107–34

  as boomtown, 112, 132–33

  Christmas Day turkey dinners, 118

  claim jumping and litigation, 109

  Clum in, 128, 255n 128

  conditions in, 112, 120–23

  crime in, 123–24

  Earps arrive, 107, 111

  Earps depart,133–34

  Earps’ income in, 132

  Earps’ Tombstone friends arrive in, 129–30

  exodus from, 114–15, 133, 254n 114

  gambling and saloon trade in, 106, 118, 124

  gold on the beach, 107, 110–11

  gold rush, 103, 104, 105, 108–9, 121–22

  Jewish community of, 125–26

  Josephine Earp aids storm victims, 131

  Josephine Earp barred from high society, 125

  legal fraud in, 130, 131, 132

  Lucky Baldwin in, 129–30

  mail delivery, 128–29, 255n 128

  Marcus family in, 120, 125, 133

  naming of, 108

  newspapers, 124–25

  Northern Saloon, 106, 113

  ordinance against women in saloons, 113–14

  population of, 122

  prizefighting, 124

  red-light district and prostitution, 126–27

  Rickard as first mayor, 118

  Rickard in, 106, 118

  social stratification in, 114, 124–25

  storm of 1900, 131, 133

  synagogue in, 126

  Three Lucky Swedes, 108, 109, 113

  winter in, 114–15, 117–18

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp, marital tensions in, 126–27

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp in, 112–15, 119–34

  Wyatt Earp bypassed for deputy sheriff job, 125

  Wyatt Earp’s brushes with the law in, 127, 128

  Wyatt Earp’s Dexter Saloon, 113, 117, 122, 124, 126,
130, 132, 133, 255n 133

  Nome Chronicle, 126

  Nome Daily News, 127, 128, 131

  Nome Gold Digger, 126, 130

  Nome Nugget, 118, 132

  Noyes, Arthur, 130, 131–32

  Oakland, California, 259n 196

  Gertrude Stein and, 21, 248n 21

  Josephine Earp in, 137, 146, 179, 190, 195

  Lehnhardt mansion in, 74, 85, 137, 142, 145, 195, 217, 252n 74

  Lehnhardt’s Candies, 141, 145, 146, 195, 215

  Wyatt and Josephine Earp in, 142

  O’Brian, Hugh, 222

  Oddie, Tasker, 137, 148

  O.K. Corral

  Breakenridge’s book about, 169

  charges and trial following Gunfight (Spicer hearing), 57–59

  as cultural symbol, 3

  dead and wounded, 56, 169

  Gunfight at, 2–3, 10, 12, 55–56, 140, 221

  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, reenactments, 178, 179

  Hollywood and, 151–54

  Josephine Marcus and, 3, 6–7, 10, 12

  later accounts of, 148–50

  lead-up to gunfight, 51–54

  naming of corral, 10

  versions of gunfight, 3

  Ouray, Colorado, 72

  Parker, California, 195

  Parsons, George, 39, 40, 45, 46, 60–61, 132, 148, 169–70, 189, 193, 200, 202, 250n 40

  on cowboys, 43

  departure from Tombstone, 67

  in Nome, Alaska, 129

  on Stilwell killing, 65

  Wyatt Earp and, 67–68

  Peabody, Endicott, 7, 39, 40, 65, 166

  on “Cowboy and Earp Feud,” 60

  on crime in Tombstone, 43

  departure from Tombstone, 67

  on Wyatt Earp, 67

  Peoria, Illinois, 36, 211

  Phoenix, Arizona, 28

  Pioneer Days in Arizona (Lockwood), 200

  Pitkin, Frederick, 71, 252n 71

  Planet Earp, 5

  Posen, Prussia, 14, 248n 14, 248n 20

  Prescott, Arizona, 25–26, 48

  Virgil Earp as deputy U.S. marshal, 38

  Prohibition, 144, 158, 175

  prostitution, 7, 36, 201

  Bessie Earp and, 36, 42

  Josephine Earp suspected of, 48–49, 186, 209, 258n 186, 260n 209

  Mattie Earp and, 84–85

  in Nome, Alaska, 126–27

  Sally Haspel and, 36, 211

  in San Diego, 82

  in Tombstone, 47–49, 250n 49, 258n 186, 260n 209

  Wyatt Earp and brothels, 36, 82, 127, 137, 211

  railroads

  “big red” train, Los Angeles to San Bernadino, 180

  San Francisco-Los Angeles line completed (1876), 21

  transcontinental railroad (1869), 18

  Raine, William MacLeod, 167, 168, 169, 192

  Rampart, Alaska, 96–104, 116, 125

  Earps’ home in, 97–98, 254n 97

  Josephine Earp’s happiness in, 100–103

  prospecting and gold in, 97–98

  town dances, 101

  Randall, George M., 133

  Rickabaugh, Lou, 86

 

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