Most True West readers are familiar with the name Earp, but more likely with Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren. You may know Josephine and Mattie, but I’ll bet you didn’t know that collectively these Earp brothers had 11 wives!
Their father, Nicholas Porter Earp, started the trend when he married three times—with his last marriage taking place when he was 80. It seems the Earp men didn’t like being alone.
Wyatt had four women who called themselves his wife, Virgil had three a
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