Just what did folks call Wyatt Earp’s third wife, Sarah Josephine Marcus Earp? The movies suggest that everyone referred to her as Josie. But history says Wyatt called her Sadie. And a Los Angeles Times article, published the day after Earp died in January 1928, also refers to her as Sadie.
The lady herself tried to downplay that name after Wyatt died—probably because there was a prosti

True West June 2018
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- What History Has Taught Me: Rudolfo Anaya
- A Watch to Die For
- Did Ranches have Ice Houses?
- Idaho City: Queen of the Gold Camps
- Western Events for June 2018
- Did Gunmen really make Tenderfeet “Dance” by Shooting at their Feet?
- Was “Little Gertie, the Gold Dollar” Real?
- Romance and the Buffalo Hunt
- Discover San Angelo – An Oasis in West Texas, Off the Beaten Path
- What Happened in the Billy Allen-”Doc” Holliday Fight Over $5?
- The Painter’s Cabin
- The Dodge City Lawdog