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Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1860 - December 19, 1944)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/transcripts/2013/130318ame1200.txt )〕 was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. Josephine was born in New York to a Prussian Jewish family; her father was a baker. They moved to San Francisco, where Josephine attended dance school as a girl. When her father had difficulty finding work, the family moved in with her older sister and brother-in-law in a working-class tenement. Josephine ran away, possibly as early as age 14, and traveled to Arizona, where she had an "adventure". Much of her life from about 1874 to 1880 is uncertain; she worked hard to keep this period of her life private, even threatening legal action against writers and movie producers. She may have arrived in Prescott, Arizona as early as 1874. In a book about her life, ''I Married Wyatt Earp'' (1967), she was quoted as describing events in Arizona that she was witness to that occurred before 1879, the year she otherwise said was the year she first arrived in Tombstone. There is some evidence that shows she lived in Prescott and Tip Top, Arizona Territory under the assumed name of Sadie Mansfield, and worked as a prostitute from 1874 to 1876, before becoming ill and returning to San Francisco. Later in life Josephine described her first years in Arizona as "a bad dream." What is known for certain is that Josephine Marcus was recorded as arriving in Tombstone in 1880. Johnny Behan, Cochise County Sheriff, had promised to marry her; he reneged but persuaded her to stay. Behan was sympathetic to ranchers and certain outlaw Cowboys, who were at odds with Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers, Wyatt and Morgan. Josephine left Behan in 1881, sometime before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October of that year. She returned to San Francisco in March 1882 and was joined that fall by Wyatt Earp, with whom she remained in a common-law marriage for 46 years until his death. Josephine and Wyatt moved throughout their life, from one boomtown to another, until they finally bought a cottage in the Sonoran Desert town of Vidal, California on the Colorado River, where they spent the cooler seasons. In the summer they retreated to Los Angeles, where Wyatt struck up relationships with some of the early cowboy actors, including William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Josephine Earp became known after amateur historian Glenn Boyer published his book, ''I Married Wyatt Earp'' (1967), based on a manuscript allegedly written in part by her. Boyer's book was considered a factual memoir, and cited by scholars, studied in classrooms, and used as a source by filmmakers for 32 years. In 1998, reporters and scholars found that Boyer could not document many of the facts he wrote about the time period in Tombstone. Some critics described the book as a fraud and a hoax, and the University of Arizona withdrew the book from its catalog. == Early life == Josephine Sarah Marcus was born in 1860 in New York City, the second of three children of immigrants Carl-Hyman Marcuse (later Henry Marcus) and Sophie Lewis. Her father's family was of Jewish ancestry and came from the Posen region in Prussia, current-day Poland, around 1850.〔〔 Her mother Sophie was a widow with a 3-year-old daughter, Rebecca, when she married Marcuse, who was eight years younger than she. Sophie and Carl had three children together: Nathan (born August 12, 1857), Josephine, and Henrietta (born July 10, 1864).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josephine Earp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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