My great-grandfather apparently was a bartender in Wyatt Earp’s saloon in Nome, Alaska. I haven’t been able to confirm that. What happened to Earp’s papers, especially those related to his Gold Rush days? Norma RogersVacaville, California Earp historian Casey Tefertiller tells me that Wyatt’s wife Josie (Sadie) wrote a letter stating the Earps had stored most of their belongings at a relative’s house in San Francisco, California, while they were up north—and those things were later d


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