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  COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Wyatt Earp 2000 Plate
Earp left Mattie and with Josie he left Tombstone in March 1882 shortly after his brother Morgan was killed in an ambush.
Earp was a lawman in a time and place when men routinely took the law into their own hands for their own reasons.
Wyatt Earp was drafted from the Cochise County League of Republicans in 1999 and he quickly demonstrated a stamina on the mound that helped the Pisces win the Overleague pennant.
www.cosmicbaseball.com /earp0.html   (1500 words)

  
 Josephine Earp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Earp was born in Brooklyn, New York, to German-Jewish immigrant parents.
The couple wandered throughout the West together until Wyatt Earp died in 1929.
She and her husband are buried in a Jewish cemetery in San Francisco area, where Wyatt Earp's fans make his grave the most-visited site.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Earp.html   (105 words)

  
 The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biogrpahy - Book Review
The Real Wyatt Earp is a compilation of original documents, with brief commentary by Gatto, on Wyatt earp from before his first law enforcement job (in Lamar, Missouri), through his three years as a Kansas lawman, and the Tombstone experience.
The question of Earp facing down the Clements crowd is not mentioned, another example of there being no basis in fact, hence he ignores this Lake-inspired myth totally.
An example is his findings concerning the claim of Earp that he had killed "Curly Bill" Brocius during his "Vendetta Ride." The evidence that Brocius was out of the territory at the time of the supposed death is greater than the evidence that Earp did kill Brocius.
members.tripod.com /Tombstonehistory/nolareview.html   (868 words)

  
 Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives
The third of four children, Josephine Sarah (Marcus) Earp was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1861 to German-Jewish immigrants Sophie and Hyman (Henry) Marcus.
Josephine Earp's contribution, I Married Wyatt Earp, written with Mabel Earp Cason and Cason's sister Vinola Earp Ackerman, and edited by western writer Glenn Boyer, was published in 1967.
I Married Wyatt Earp, with Mabel Earp Cason and Vinola Earp Ackerman.
parentseyes.arizona.edu /bloom/jsmearp_1-0.html   (746 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp was born at Monmouth, Illinois on March 19, 1848.
Earp moved on to Lamarr, Missouri, where he worked as the town Marshall for a year.
However Virgil Earp, who was actually the sheriff, while the others were deputies, insisted that the gang be arrested.
members.aol.com /Gibson0817/wearp.htm   (1124 words)

  
 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Josephine Earp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Josephine Marcus (probably born in Brooklyn, New York in 1861; dead on December 20, 1944) was a dancer who became better known as the wife of Wyatt Earp.
Lake knew many secrets that Josephine Earp did not want to be public knowledge, such as the fact that she had worked as a prostitute while in Tombstone, and that Wyatt Earp had abandoned his commonlaw wife Mattie Blaylock Earp when he fell in love with Josephine.
Mattie Earp died of a laudanum overdose in 1888.
random.dragonslife.org /josephine-earp/2392   (1014 words)

  
 Thoughts on Kaloma, the Purported Photograph of Josie Earp ; Maine Antique Digest, October 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The dealer said the image was thought to be Josie Earp at one point but that it was definitely not her, it was just a tall tale.
Described in the catalog as a hand-colored photograph of Josephine Marcus Earp, the one-time wife of lawman Wyatt Earp, the photograph was estimated at $3000/4000 and sold for $2875.
Josephine Earp was born in 1861 and would have been 53 in 1914.
www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/oct02/josi1002.htm   (2909 words)

  
 I Varied Wyatt Earp, by Tony Ortega - Tombstone History Archives
In recent years, however, some Earp experts have claimed that the man who produced the book, Glenn Boyer, used dubious sources for Josephine's account, particularly of the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, and may have invented large portions of it.
Boyer admitted that Josephine Earp's supposed memoirs were not really a first-person account, that he had inserted his own theories about Wyatt Earp in Josephine's voice, and that he couldn't produce disputed documents he claimed would vindicate his methods.
Earp, and that you have written a first-person account based on her memoirs and other material as well.
home.earthlink.net /~knuthco1/IMWEfiles2/IVariedWyattEarp.htm   (2491 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp History Page
This shootout and the bloody events that followed, combined with Wyatt Earp's penchant for storytelling, resulted in Wyatt Earp acquiring the reputation as being one of the West's toughest lawmen and deadliest gunmen of his day.
Josephine Marcus Earp's cremated remains were interred next to Wyatt's upon her death in 1944.
Written in a novelistic style complete with dialogue, the biography glorified Wyatt Earp as the "greatest gun-fighting marshal that the Old West knew." The book was popular with readers and it made Wyatt Earp the most famous frontier lawman of all time.
www.wyattearp.net   (430 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp: Knight with a Six-Shooter
In discussing Wyatt Earp -- as a matter of fact, in discussing any historical figure of any importance -- one needs to consider both the man/woman and the events in which he/she was involved.
Because Earp is one of those figures who, as I think most historians will agree, achieved fame out of sheer guts in a time and at a place when he was called upon to have sheer guts...or run...he then becomes a more interesting study if you regard the three as a unit: Man/Time/Place.
Wyatt Earp is a study in reaction to spontaneous occurrences that popped up around the next corner in the next cattle town.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/earp/15.html   (734 words)

  
 RRBBS: Reading Travel, Hiking & Exploring Thread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Earps and Holliday, in turn, claimed that the Clantons were waiting for them and cocked their pistols first.
When Josephine heard the sound of guns that October evening, she ran from her house and jumped on a passing wagon, which took her to the O.K. Corral.
She knew that the Earps and the Clantons had a showdown but, in her first moments on the scene, she couldn’t tell who was left standing.
www.rrbbs.com /cgi-bin/bbs/thread.pl?13-1037   (1407 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com - News - How the West Was Spun
Boyer found and published a supposedly lost Wyatt Earp manuscript; he described for the first time in any detail the life of Earp's second wife, Mattie, who committed suicide after he abandoned her; he tracked down the letters of Wyatt Earp's sister-in-law, Louisa Earp, which are considered a major contribution to the field.
Josephine writes that the fight took place because Wyatt Earp wanted to vindicate his friend Doc Holliday, recounting that the Tombstone Nugget had implicated Holliday in a stagecoach robbery that had taken place months earlier.
Earp aficionados realized that Josephine, for some reason, describes a man in 1881 explaining the genesis of a news line that wouldn't be created for another 47 years.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1998-12-24/news/feature4_full.html   (7778 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp (DesertUSA)
Wyatt Earp is best known as the fearless frontier lawman of Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas, and as principal survivor of the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois on March 19, 1848.
Earp's enduring legacies include his role in shaping the West as a frontiersman, a lawman, a gambler and a prospector.
www.desertusa.com /mag98/mar/papr/du_earp.html   (909 words)

  
 Kaddish for a Cowgirl
I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp.
Josephine Sarah Marcus was born in 1861 in New York city to a family of Jewish immigrants from Germany who transplanted themselves to San Francisco when Josie was six years of age.
Earp and Behan were political adversaries in the 1881 elections for Sheriff of Tombstone.
www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/020704_CowgirlKaddish.html   (891 words)

  
 Tombstone/OK corral thinking..
She saw the united Earps as a cause to expect trouble, as the five brothers were a serious threat to any opposition (despite James Earp's infirmity), and more likely to promote serious problems.
Earp entered through the rear door and Boyett fired two shots at him, Earp disappeared through the same door he had entered; then he went from the restaurant through a side door out on the side walk and in a few minutes he entered the saloon again through a side door.
Warren Earp is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Willcox, AZ a short jaunt from the Rex Allen Museum.
www.cascity.com /forumhall/index.php?topic=739.msg6254   (3282 words)

  
 Articles Regarding I Married Wyatt Earp -Tombstone History Archives
The controversy centers on whether "I Married Wyatt Earp" is the authentic memoir of Josephine Earp, the third wife of Wyatt Earp, or a blend of fact and fiction that might better be termed a historical novel.
Boyer now claims that 'I Married Wyatt Earp' is creative non-fiction when he has always led our family to believe it as a true account and memoir of Josephine Earp.
Earp experts agree that Josephine Earp -- who, though commonly considered the deputy marshal's third and last wife, never actually married him - did verifiably compose, with help, at least one of the manuscripts upon which Mr.
home.earthlink.net /~knuthco1/IMWEfiles2/articles-IMWEsource.htm   (5104 words)

  
 JewishJournal.com
Wyatt Earp was laid to rest in Hills of Eternity Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery just south of San Francisco.
Wyatt Earp is buried in a Jewish cemetery, surrounded by tombstones adorned with stone doves, Stars of David and menorahs, amid a sprinkling of palm trees.
Josephine then went with Behan to Tombstone where, after the romance soured, she met Wyatt Earp, then a deputy sheriff, proprietor of the Oriental Saloon, and married to his second wife, Mattie.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=6564   (867 words)

  
 The Chronicle: Research & Publishing: June 11, 1999
It has been 118 years since Wyatt Earp set his six-shooters a-blazing at the O.K. Corral, but the gun smoke is still thick in the air.
Earp experts agree that Josephine Earp -- who, though commonly considered the deputy marshal's third and last wife, never actually married him -- did verifiably compose, with help, at least one of the manuscripts upon which Mr.
Boyer's Earp was a good but faulty man who dealt with the world as it came to him.
chronicle.com /free/v45/i40/40a01901.htm   (1523 words)

  
 Lingua franca -- July/August 1999
On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp became a gunfighting legend when he and his companions killed three cattle rustlers behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
While undertaking a book-length analysis of the Earp legend in the late 1960s, Boyer interviewed and eventually befriended several of the Earps' living relatives.
They surprised him by sending him a thick manuscript Josephine had put together with the help of two distant relatives, Mabel Earp Cason and Vinolia Earp Ackerman, before her death in 1944.
linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org /9907/blues.html   (1113 words)

  
 The Evidence Fails:
The Earp believers find fault with the words "received the arms of Ben Thompson." Dr. Roberts writes "The most damaging words in the whole public record of the affair are the words from the REPORTER that Deputy Sheriff Hogue ‘received the arms’ of Ben Thompson.
Earp also probably got the story from those who were provably in Ellsworth at the proper time.
Wyatt Earp was a tall, ministerial looking fellow, and he was not the man that one would pick out of a crowd for a rascal or a desperado.
www.larned.net /rogmyers/ben_earp.htm   (4859 words)

  
 Books on Wyatt Earp and the Legends of the Old West - UK Bookshop
Long portrayed as a villain in the Tombstone conflicts, and the nemesis of Wyatt Earp, "Sacrificed Sheriff" presents the story of a 40-year lawman and public servant who was skilled with gun and horse, yet who consistently fought crime and arrested bad guys without killing anyone.
Sorting through the innumerable legends about Wyatt Earp and his brothers is a monumental task, but Allen Barra, a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a lifelong devotee of western lore, has tried mightily to sort the fact from fiction to determine once and for all if the Earps were heroes or villains.
The central event of the Earp story is the fabled gunfight near Tombstone's O.K. Corral, a violent eruption in a simmering feud between, believe it or not, frontier Democrats and Republicans.
www.uk-bookshop.com /history/wyatt_earp.htm   (656 words)

  
 I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp www.booksaboutmontana.com - Books About Montana
No writer or historian that I am aware of even comes close to capturing the sense and feel of the old west, Wyatt and Josephine Earp and the litany of characters that were entwined with their lives.
As to the criticism that she didn't write it, most subjects of memoirs do not write them personally, but have the assistance of someone with writing ability who is familiar with their story, such as a relative or close friend.
He was an intimate of the Earp family and fully qualified to do what he did - rewrite several less-than-professional sources and merge them into a first person delivery to make them saleable, and he did it on professional advice.
www.booksaboutmontana.com /bookisbn0816505837montana.html   (865 words)

  
 josephine earp photo
Provides information virgil earp information on the events that took place during the gunfight at the OK Corral.
He came to earp brother to California with his.
Long overshadowed by earp california by the gunfight at the OK Corral.
josephine-earp-photo.voe.one.pl   (696 words)

  
 Salon | Bogus bride
Ortega is the man credited by many with blowing the cover off "I Married Wyatt Earp" in a 1998 series of articles in the Phoenix New Times by doing what many critics of Boyer had not the time or the stomach to do.
If historians were dismayed to learn that the Pulitzer Prize-winning Morris had introduced fictional elements into his authorized biography, they at least were in no danger of incorporating his fiction into their historical research.
Did Josephine Earp detail her life to Tombstone resident John Clum, who wrote her memories down, as Boyer once contended, or is the invention of fictional sources part of the ruse involved in making "creative nonfiction"?
archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/02/08/earp/print.html   (2275 words)

  
 Movie Info for Tombstone on MSN Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He discovers that long-time friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) is there and that the town is run by a group of brutal outlaws called the Cowboys.
Earp, frustrated with his laudanum-addicted wife, begins a romance with traveling stage actress Josephine Marcus (Dana Delany).
When the town marshal is killed by a Cowboy, Earp steps in to prevent a lynching by an angry mob.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=109336   (326 words)

  
 Letters To The Editor: Maine Antique Digest, July 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ackerman's stated opinion is that the photo offered in our December [1996] auction is not that of Josephine Earp as we represented, but rather "an erotic photo," according to Mr.
In all instances the image was identified as Josephine Earp.
The research done on the Josephine Earp photo satisfied the staffs at Sotheby's, Swann Galleries, the University of Arizona Press, Talei Publishing, Houghton Mifflin, as well as the staff at HCA Historical Collectible Auctions.
www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/lett797.htm   (1448 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp: Books: Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Glenn Boyer, a friend of Earp descendents for many years, has done a remarkable job of editing the memoirs of Earp's third wife, Josephine Sarah Marcus.
Boyer is the only "historian/novelist" to have actually vistied with and received his information from the Earp family and friends as well as Josephine's family.
The importing thing to realize is that Josephine Earp spent almost half a century with Wyatt and certainly knew him better than anyone else.
www.amazon.ca /Married-Wyatt-Earp-Recollections-Josephine/dp/0816505837   (807 words)

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