Josephine Earp
Josephine Sarah Earp (* 1861 in Brooklyn as Josephine Sarah Marcus ; called Sadie or Josie ; † 1944 in Los Angeles ) was an American actress, professional dancer and perhaps also a prostitute of German-Jewish origin (the family name was originally Marcuse ).
She became known as a long-time partner of the Wild West - gunslingers Wyatt Earp . The two had met in Tombstone / Arizona in 1881 and stayed together for 48 years until Wyatt Earp's death in 1929.
In 1976, Glenn G. Boyer published the book I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp with the University of Arizona Press as a memoire . The book was a bestseller and was considered factually correct. In 1994 it was found that large parts of the book were fake and fictitious. Boyer was unable to provide any evidence even as to the attribution of the picture of a half-naked woman on the envelope, which was supposed to depict Josephine Earp. The picture turned out to be a cutout from a 1914 heliogravure by the ABC Novelty Company of Brooklyn, with the caption Kaloma . The University of Arizona Press withdrew Boyer's book from the catalog in 2000, and Boyer published it with another publisher.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrew Gumbel: Historians shoot it out over Mrs Earp's fake memoirs . In: The Independent of February 13, 2000.
- ↑ Glenn G. Boyer: I Married Wyatt Earp . Sinclair-Stevenson 1999, ISBN 9780186505834 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Earp, Josephine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Earp, Josephine Sarah; Marcus, Josephine Sarah (maiden name); Earp, Sadie (nickname); Earp, Josie (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | longtime partner Wyatt Earps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |