Lady at the O.K. Corral (41 page)

      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