Josephine Earp follows the woman who shared Wyatt Earp’s later life and helped shape the public memory of his frontier career. It traces her early years, movement to Arizona and relationship with Earp during and after the violent conflicts associated with Tombstone.
The biography examines the couple’s travels, mining ventures and long partnership in California. Because Josephine guarded private information and promoted a heroic image of Wyatt, the book also considers the difficulties of reconstructing her life from contradictory recollections, family stories and later western legend.
