Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp
Page 30
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