Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp: Wyatt Earp's Common Law Wife

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  • Josephine Marcus Earp was Wyatt Earp's common-law wife for more than forty years. Yet her story, especially her time in Tombstone, is still shrouded in mystery.
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  • @LuvBorderCollies
    @LuvBorderCollies 5 лет назад +128

    No one can say Wyatt Earp was lazy or afraid to take risks, either with gun and badge or trying to make living. Its incredible how many different directions and diverse activities he was involved in. From real estate to frontier lawman to cat houses to movie advisor, Wyatt crammed in more controversy and fame in his 80 years than dozens of people combined. That, I think, is part of his enduring fame and our fascination with his life. Great episode, I learned a few new things as I always do from THG.

  • @drsonnysell4471
    @drsonnysell4471 5 лет назад +14

    Respect & Gratitude Professor!!

  • @shawngilliland243
    @shawngilliland243 5 лет назад +1

    More things I hadn't known before. Josephine sure seems like a liberated woman for the times. Thanks ever so much, History Guy!

  • @claycountybrian5645
    @claycountybrian5645 5 лет назад +11

    Greetings from Clay County Missouri!
    Great as always!
    CONGRATS ON 300K!!!

    • @Mistralok
      @Mistralok 5 лет назад +1

      Phelps County here!

  • @tckailliss
    @tckailliss 3 года назад

    You have no idea how absolutely thrilled someone has finally enshrined her story. I think there is movie written all over her story, but as to not disrespect her wishes I'd not want the movie made.

  • @techElephant
    @techElephant Год назад +1

    That was beautiful and brought to life the lives and times of tombstone...

  • @awaitingthetrumpetcall4529
    @awaitingthetrumpetcall4529 5 лет назад +4

    I used to watch Wyatt Earp on TV in the 60's.

  • @TBagr
    @TBagr 2 года назад

    Amazing, as always.

  • @alfredhill5277
    @alfredhill5277 5 лет назад

    Gosh, i just found u on 8/3/19. And have been watching you for 3 days. Sooo interesting

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 3 года назад +1

    saw Tombstone a few years ago
    my Career Army Dad retired outside Ft. Huachuca
    1972 photo on Post is my profile pic
    My understanding is that the Clancey Brothers had violated the "turn in your guns while in town" rule common in U.S.
    "Check them" was the phrase, but it then meant 'hand guns in exchange for a piece of paper we call a Check' "

    • @markrossow6303
      @markrossow6303 3 года назад +1

      The Black Jack Pershing base for invading México to chase after Pancho Villa still stands.
      Wood buildings, fenced off, near Naco AZ + Naco MX

  • @jadenephrite
    @jadenephrite 4 года назад +2

    Regarding 12:17, Eternity Memorial Park is located in Colma, California. In this cemetery are Josephine Sarah Marcus & Wyatt Earp as well as Levi Strauss, the man who became wealthy from his invention of the famous blue denim jeans that won the West. See it @ ruclips.net/video/8w4v-uarZM0/видео.html

  • @damit505
    @damit505 4 года назад

    Great history really interesting

  • @jsfoster100
    @jsfoster100 7 месяцев назад +38

    In the late 1960s I occasionally took care of a 96 yo man who was born in California and had worked for Wyatt Earp, mainly with his horse racing in the 1880s

    • @joecascio2073
      @joecascio2073 3 месяца назад +2

      Oh man, I would’ve loved that opportunity. There are so many questions I’d ask the gentleman. Did the man ever remark on Wyatt’s height? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a picture of him wearing his gun belt. It would be interesting to see how he Carried his weapons. Thanks for the post.

    • @Angie-v4r
      @Angie-v4r 25 дней назад +1

      I would have loved such an opportunity, as well. Wow, what a treasure trove of info at your disposal.

    • @thomasromano9321
      @thomasromano9321 16 дней назад

      That would have been in Santa Rosa, CA. Wyatt Earp wasn't a jockey, he was too tall for that. His job was to exercise the horses.

  • @rumi9005
    @rumi9005 5 лет назад +907

    We tend to think of Wyatt Earp and the Wild West as existing a long time ago. But it's interesting to note that he died in a suburban bungalow that had electricity and indoor plumbing. It really wasn't all that long ago.

    • @AG4KN
      @AG4KN 5 лет назад +21

      "It was just yesterday."

    • @notsosilentmajority1
      @notsosilentmajority1 5 лет назад +117

      Rumi900
      You're absolutely right. It's amazing that Josephine Earp was still alive during WWll. People often talk about different times in history that saw a lot of change and this particular period doesn't seem to be mentioned that often. Well, these folks went from Indian wars on horseback to WWll and the atomic bomb. They went from no plumbing or electricity to telephones, airplanes, tanks, television, movies and a whole lot more. The world really changed dramatically from the mid 1800's to the mid 1900's, especially in the US.

    • @lylecosmopolite
      @lylecosmopolite 5 лет назад +66

      The years 1870-1940 were years of radical economic, technological and lifestyle changes. This revolutionary period in human history is analysed in a 2016 book by economist Robert Gordon. I have a great aunt who lived 1876-1966. As a child, the only technologies she enjoyed were the telegraph and steam railroad. She lived to see the world wars, thermonuclear weapons, television, movies with colour as well as sound, and the beginnings of space travel. She mulled over these huge changes in an essay published in the Filson Club Quarterly in 1963.

    • @user-cd6zr9dy3j
      @user-cd6zr9dy3j 5 лет назад +22

      Rumi900 he died in 1929 and tom micks was there at the funeral. It’s said he wept and wept.

    • @seller559
      @seller559 5 лет назад +19

      October if 1881 has the shoot out at the OK Corral and in that same month the US. Open golf tournament took place. Followed by the US Tennis Championship. I wonder if any Cheyenne from Little Big Horn watched the golf match.

  • @michaelroberson2546
    @michaelroberson2546 5 лет назад +225

    I live in Arizona and grew up near Superior, AZ. After leaving Wyatt, Mattie Earp eventually ended up in Pinal, AZ. PInal no longer exists but the cemetery does, and it is there that Mattie found her rest.

    • @lisafleming9603
      @lisafleming9603 5 лет назад +11

      Thank you for telling us the sound epilogue of Mattie's earthly and wearisome spirit.

    • @fiddlesticksbessette398
      @fiddlesticksbessette398 5 лет назад +8

      SHE'S BEEN MOVED,CAUSE OF TO MANY LOOTER'S LIKE WHATT'S GRAVE..

    • @wtmerit6129
      @wtmerit6129 4 года назад +1

      Very, very good. Very entertaining. Thanks.

    • @risecarter
      @risecarter 4 года назад +12

      I live in Gold Canyon and go to the cemetery quite often. I know that she is not buried in the spot where her marker is, but still feel like she is there. Can you imagine living in the shadow of Picket Post Mountain back then? It is an awesome feeling to be standing there.

    • @valiantsfelinesmccarty6678
      @valiantsfelinesmccarty6678 4 года назад +13

      So sad that people can't leave these Graves alone and they desecrate the peace of the bodies simply looking for gold teeth and jewelry that was put on the bodies. What a world we live in. Horse if they were Native American Graves there'd be hell to pay.

  • @ScoutSniper3124
    @ScoutSniper3124 5 лет назад +261

    "On such small hinges does the door to contentment swing" … I like that quote.

    • @elainekessler6831
      @elainekessler6831 4 года назад +2

      I like that quote too

    • @davidlixenberg5999
      @davidlixenberg5999 4 года назад +2

      I agree, however the snug bug in a rug comfort of fresh bread and love are also wonderful.
      David Lixenberg

    • @hoponpop3330
      @hoponpop3330 4 года назад +5

      You have to have experienced the smell of fresh baked bread to appreciate that comment.

    • @dougstitt1652
      @dougstitt1652 4 года назад

      make me happy coming home to fresh bread from the oven YUMYUMYUM

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 3 года назад +1

      Great quote. It seems that Doc, more than grappled with that sentiment. At least Wyatt found some 'contentment', in his later years.

  • @blacksmith67
    @blacksmith67 5 лет назад +607

    In a world filled with divisive messages, it is wonderfully refreshing to get a good dose of history that is well presented. You are more than a historian, you are a raconteur of the finest order. Thank you.

    • @oceannavagator
      @oceannavagator 5 лет назад +41

      Thumbs up for the use of the word "raconteur", not used enough today.

    • @skydiverclassc2031
      @skydiverclassc2031 5 лет назад +9

      @@oceannavagator But, I thought you could get arrested for raconteuring. (I do know what it means)

    • @paulmanson253
      @paulmanson253 5 лет назад +14

      @@skydiverclassc2031 Well I do know that back in the day you could get arrested for moping,at least in New York State. It means hanging around a whorehouse. 23 skidoo.
      Better a raconteur than a mountebank,no ?

    • @oceannavagator
      @oceannavagator 5 лет назад +23

      @@paulmanson253 Truly not enough emphasis on language in this internet age. Must be a sign that I'm ready for social security.

    • @rvasquez8057
      @rvasquez8057 5 лет назад +13

      @@oceannavagator Not used enough because of the loss of the art of the spoken word.

  • @robotslug
    @robotslug 5 лет назад +423

    This is my favorite way to start the day, make my coffee, sit down and hear a neat anecdote for a few minutes and off I go. Thank you History Guy!

    • @MrPants-zu6dm
      @MrPants-zu6dm 5 лет назад +8

      RobotSlug agreed.

    • @Nick-bn3od
      @Nick-bn3od 5 лет назад +10

      I'll sip my coffee to that.

    • @stevendgrissom1968
      @stevendgrissom1968 5 лет назад +5

      Same here.

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 5 лет назад +4

      I guess I am the only one who starts my day by smoking a bowl. Whatever floats your boat I guess.

    • @robotslug
      @robotslug 5 лет назад +7

      @@Tsukiko.97 I did when I was younger and less responsible. Now that I have to get things done and my work needs to be 100% from the get go, I don't anymore.

  • @SharonH11100
    @SharonH11100 5 лет назад +237

    Thanks for remembering the women behind the men of legend.

    • @daxinventor3542
      @daxinventor3542 5 лет назад +8

      I agree with you Sharon Hauser. As much as we men like to pretend that it was men who did all of the great things in history. I especially like the fact that Josephine Marcus Earp was of Jewish American decent. Although I am not of Jewish decent, I thank the makers of this video for including her ethnic origins. Jewish and Mexican, American Indians, Mexican American's and Ex slaves built this country and gave their blood and sweat here in this land as well. Women from all over the world came here and also contributed their efforts to make this country prosperous and great. I am grateful to everyone who was not mentioned in this video for their unselfish contributions to our country. Gunfighters are a dime a dozen and will always be such. It is the people which we never read about or see in these videos who are the real hero's of our country. What would we do without women ? I love them all from the lowest to the highest, thank you ladies one and all.

    • @SharonH11100
      @SharonH11100 5 лет назад +3

      Dax Inventor ~ I also can’t help musing on the ones who just stayed at home having babies, many of which died, (the babies and the wives), while the famous husband was out in the world doing “famous things.” Being a female myself, I’m ever so grateful to live in the world of today, especially in the U.S.A. I hope a Dax id a good thing ~ sorry, duh ~ Sharon

    • @jasonchandler2463
      @jasonchandler2463 5 лет назад +4

      The women had nothing to do with those men becoming legends those men acheived that on their own no where in history did any woman have anything to do with a mans acheivements and Josephine was only the whore that Wyatt had an affair on his wife with then left his wife for seems like that's always the woman's contributions.

    • @kathleennorton6108
      @kathleennorton6108 5 лет назад +5

      @Jeffrey Bone Without your Mom you wouldn't be here to have that opinion.

    • @myleneliwanag1966
      @myleneliwanag1966 4 года назад +2

      @@kathleennorton6108 👍👍👍

  • @rabignall
    @rabignall 5 лет назад +63

    The history guy. He's deserves to be remembered!

  • @86medic1
    @86medic1 4 года назад +18

    I love this guys channel. Simple, straight forward and interesting. Keep up the good work.

  • @MarkTulsa2024
    @MarkTulsa2024 5 лет назад +56

    Wyatt Earps's story has always fascinated me because it delineates a point where the old west bleeds into our modern times. Earp lived in the old west and survived to consult on Hollywood movies. Thank you for adding this extra texture to his story and for honoring the memory of Josephine.

    • @williestyle35
      @williestyle35 5 лет назад +6

      Wyatt was well liked by the "cowboy" actors Tom Mix and William S. Hart

    • @nancyconca9892
      @nancyconca9892 7 месяцев назад +3

      Thanks for posting this vlog ‼️ I never knew anything about Josephine other than she and Wyatt were together for many many years! Love your posts - I always learn something new 🤩👏🏻‼️👍

  • @rogererickson8564
    @rogererickson8564 5 лет назад +51

    Early Western movie star Tom Mix was a pall bearer in Wyatt Earp's funeral.

    • @rdobery
      @rdobery 4 года назад

      My ears may be mistaken, but wasn't he cremated? I think that is what I heard the history guy say.

    • @donvanstraaten4973
      @donvanstraaten4973 4 года назад +1

      rdobery Yes, she had Wyatt cremated after the funeral in Los Angeles, and took the urn to Hills of Eternity Cemetery (Jewish) in Colman’s, CA. It is still a tourist destination, but the original marker is not displayed, but a new monument marks Wyatt & Sarah’s grave. You can see photos on FindaGrave.com

    • @doughill3396
      @doughill3396 3 года назад

      I think I heard that Tom rode a horse at FDR's inauguration

  • @skydiverclassc2031
    @skydiverclassc2031 5 лет назад +215

    "The only second class saloon in Alaska". Gotta love that marketing.

    • @mjbull5156
      @mjbull5156 5 лет назад +17

      Cannot raise expectations too high.

    • @highpockets359
      @highpockets359 5 лет назад +5

      🤣

    • @ut000bs
      @ut000bs 4 года назад +6

      That was the name of it, too. "The Second Class Saloon."
      I may have a man or 2 in my bloodline who visited upstairs there. We'll never know. My great-grandfather lived in Nome during that time and owned a boat that ran supplies. Dad told me both him and my grandfather, who was young boy then, knew Wyatt Earp.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 4 года назад +1

      In Mount Carroll Illinois there is a saloon that markets itself as "Where Intellectuals Foregather."
      Poffenberger's Tavern.

    • @IronCavalier
      @IronCavalier 4 года назад

      “Eastern Beer Only” which is interesting, as well.

  • @kellycranford3592
    @kellycranford3592 4 года назад +215

    Even tho the movie Tombstone, is not completely factually correct, it's still one of my favorites!!

    • @mistervacation23
      @mistervacation23 4 года назад +25

      About 75% factual. Better than most movies about Tombstone.

    • @onionheadguy7094
      @onionheadguy7094 4 года назад +3

      Good pizza too!

    • @marylamb7707
      @marylamb7707 4 года назад +6

      Im partial to Wyatt Earp but like tombstone too.

    • @faerieSAALE
      @faerieSAALE 4 года назад +32

      VAL KILMER - KURT RUSSELL AND SAM ELLIOT - OMG - COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT!

    • @kellycranford3592
      @kellycranford3592 4 года назад +4

      @@faerieSAALE I KNOW!!! Sexy overload in that one!!

  • @christineschmidt8494
    @christineschmidt8494 5 лет назад +97

    Another great episode H G. You sir are one of a kind ! And I just love the way you explain the little things of the story. Thanks again!

  • @bird10498
    @bird10498 3 года назад +19

    One of the most credible sounding Earp accounts I've ever heard.

  • @justme8837
    @justme8837 5 лет назад +200

    I live in AZ and went to Tombstone for the first time last year and you get a vibe there that I have never felt before. It is almost like you are walking into the past since the town hasn't changed too much. The Birdcage is so cool, packed with antiques and you can see bullet holes and old wall paper. The stage is so much smaller than I had envisioned. Thank you for todays video as I am obsessed with Wyatt Earp and Josephine. Have a great weekend.

    • @lynnabernethy4998
      @lynnabernethy4998 5 лет назад +11

      CelitaGW I feel the same way about Tombstone and Cimarron NM. Bullet holes in the ceiling of the hotel sets my imagination on fire. Colorado and South Dakota have similar treasures.

    • @carloscarpinteyro332
      @carloscarpinteyro332 5 лет назад +6

      I totally agree with you about the "vibe" thing. I was so impressed that I brought my dad to see it, and he was quite impressed, as well!!

    • @lynnabernethy4998
      @lynnabernethy4998 5 лет назад +4

      Carlos Carpinteyro I did too. Parents enjoyed both. Toured Tombstone birdcage with both.

    • @danielbass2895
      @danielbass2895 5 лет назад +13

      The best way to experience Tombstone is to wear boots. There's something about hearing them hit the boardwalk that transports you back in time.

    • @TheAzmountaineer
      @TheAzmountaineer 5 лет назад +6

      @@danielbass2895 I gotta try that on my next visit to Tombstone.

  • @Murph52
    @Murph52 3 года назад +15

    Absolutely fascinating. Recommend "Mrs Earp: The Wives and Lovers of the Earp Brothers" by Sherry Monahan for an overview of Wyatt's several "wives" as well as his brother's wives. Would very much like the History Guy's perspective on the other wives (brief as the relationships may have been...)

  • @jwilliams703
    @jwilliams703 5 лет назад +23

    May the memories of the Earp's live long in our minds and books. Great men in great times.

  • @painmagnet1
    @painmagnet1 5 лет назад +154

    Virgil Earp is buried not far from my home in Portland, Oregon. I commute past the graveyard that contains his remains every day on my way to work.

    • @randyames8999
      @randyames8999 5 лет назад +8

      painmagnet1 and barring the resurrection of the second coming of Christ he’s gonna stay right there

    • @drcthru7672
      @drcthru7672 5 лет назад +2

      I live in Milwaukie, OR. Where is the graveyard?

    • @Flatheadfreek
      @Flatheadfreek 5 лет назад +1

      in the dead center of town @@drcthru7672

    • @drcthru7672
      @drcthru7672 5 лет назад +1

      Wow. It's 4 miles from where I live!

    • @valiantsfelinesmccarty6678
      @valiantsfelinesmccarty6678 4 года назад +5

      I bet he's in the same one that has my grandfather and uncles and the rest of that side of the family. It was an amazing time up there in Oregon at that time when I think that my grandfather was a Rodeo Cowboy that he came to Oregon with no skill other than busting Broncs and raising pinto beans in New Mexico and he went to school to learn how to repair the steam engine trains he had nothing and nobody in the 1920 census in the 1930 census all of a sudden he had a wife with three stepchildren and a baby girl my mom. He never went back to New Mexico because the sheriff there didn't like he and his brothers form of pranks when I think that my grandfather was a rodeo cowboy that he came to Oregon with no school other than busting Broncs and raising pinto beans and he went to school to learn how to repair the steam engine trains he had nothing and nobody in the 1920s census in the 1930s census he has a wife he with 3 step children and a baby girl my mom. He never went back to New Mexico because the sheriff there didn't like he and his brothers form of pranks and had it in for them there were 12 children the first my uncle his stepson just passed away last year + 98 he lived in the same house that was built for them right after the war it was very modern for its time and Immaculate when he died. He can now be at peace with his wife and his family and with pops who made my grandmother feel so safe

  • @tacticaljackson
    @tacticaljackson 5 лет назад +76

    Your closing line punches me right in the feels every time. Thank you for all the great content, sir!

  • @charleswade2514
    @charleswade2514 5 лет назад +111

    Fun fact: John Wayne got Wyatt Erps coffee when working on movie's.

    • @trjnsd6874
      @trjnsd6874 5 лет назад +46

      A little more on that - Young Marion Morrison (and Ward Bond) worked moving furnishings and sets in Hollywood to keep in shape for football, which they played together at nearby USC. An old fellow used to hang around the Western movie sets, give advice and claimed to have been a law man in the old days; this was in the 1920's. Wayne said later that the old man was Wyatt Earp, and the things he learned from Wyatt about the old west Wayne incorporated into his characters every time he portrayed a western lawman.

    • @JensHove
      @JensHove 4 года назад +3

      @@trjnsd6874 This doc is about that: ruclips.net/video/ms0el59dcBs/видео.html

    • @michaelcornwell158
      @michaelcornwell158 4 года назад +2

      @@trjnsd6874 I'm calling you out on those cause I think you are bull

    • @Onewheelordeal
      @Onewheelordeal 4 года назад +1

      @@michaelcornwell158 did you not see the link from 2 months ago

    • @jibblesq
      @jibblesq 4 года назад

      I did not.

  • @toohighstrung
    @toohighstrung 5 лет назад +121

    Strong woman, did what was needed to survive and truly loved Wyatt, even after his death she protected him. We should all be so lucky.

    • @dataseeker7460
      @dataseeker7460 5 лет назад +6

      What I wouldn't give to find a woman like that!

    • @dataseeker7460
      @dataseeker7460 5 лет назад +5

      @Joe Dirt Care to cite your historical sources for that?

    • @wandak3025
      @wandak3025 4 года назад +1

      When true love knocks on your door that's what you do.

    • @shanep8787
      @shanep8787 4 года назад

      T #

    • @tonyrobb8815
      @tonyrobb8815 4 года назад +3

      @@dataseeker7460 I have!...GOD HAS BLESSED ME!

  • @jshal2012
    @jshal2012 5 лет назад +9

    Fascinating History .. never realised that Wyatt lived till 1929, and Josephine until 1944, three years before I was born!! Loved the story 👍

  • @johnmcmorris1170
    @johnmcmorris1170 5 лет назад +14

    I am a history nut and just swerved into your channel. It is refreshing to see someone who portrays history as it occurred and not some variation of history that was rewritten by Hollywood. Nice job.

  • @georgeb8701
    @georgeb8701 5 лет назад +30

    On such small hinges does the door of contentment swing.... poignant and true.✌🏻🇺🇸

  • @8460437
    @8460437 5 лет назад +154

    When John Wayne was a scenery mover at a Hollywood movie studio he met Wyatt Earp who served as a technical advisor for Western movies.

    • @gkess7106
      @gkess7106 4 года назад +20

      It is said that John Wayne patterned his movie persona by imitating Wyatt Earp. THE DUKE was actually Wyatt Earp!

    • @johnwalsh7931
      @johnwalsh7931 4 года назад +5

      Is that true

    • @mc-lp4zl
      @mc-lp4zl 4 года назад +8

      He met Earp while working props for John Ford.

    • @williamoverly1617
      @williamoverly1617 4 года назад +13

      @@johnwalsh7931
      It is indeed. Wayne mentioned it often and said he modeled hiis western personna after Earp, including his walk.

    • @donewhiskey
      @donewhiskey 4 года назад +14

      John Wayne was a pretender. Lee Marvin was not. Nothing more needs to be said.

  • @geoben1810
    @geoben1810 4 года назад +25

    And in just a few short minutes the History Guy presents the life and times of people long gone, but that deserve to be remembered. 👍🏻😉

  • @guyh.4553
    @guyh.4553 5 лет назад +21

    👍👍👍👍👍👍
    Thank you for a REAL ACCOUNT of what actually happened to Wyatt Earp & Josephine.

  • @lizajane8495
    @lizajane8495 5 лет назад +28

    I hated history in school,but in the 7th grade I had a teacher,Mrs.Cox,that could bring things alive through different activities.I loved her and it was the only time I made A+! She had a daughter that was born blind and I thought,later on,if that was the reason she taught like she did,because she wanted to bring things to life for her daughter that couldn't see.
    Anyway,I enjoy history now that I'm much older and enjoyed your video!

  • @mattphillips1910
    @mattphillips1910 5 лет назад +29

    I absolutely love your videos. Especially the ones about the old west. Well done sir.

  • @notsosilentmajority1
    @notsosilentmajority1 5 лет назад +29

    There aren't many videos detailing the "women behind the men" in the old West that keep up the interest. This video was one of the exceptions. You did a fantastic job and the information was very informative and interesting. Thank you for a job well done.

  • @fr3atlast448
    @fr3atlast448 5 лет назад +18

    History...so little of it taught in schools today. Thank you for creating a place, where, people can come and hear about lives past.🌷🚍

  • @ATaylor369
    @ATaylor369 5 лет назад +241

    Well-behaved women seldom make history.

    • @phapnui
      @phapnui 5 лет назад +11

      Well, they made all the men...

    • @markwhite1780
      @markwhite1780 5 лет назад +7

      Ataylor That's what she said.

    • @peterk8909
      @peterk8909 5 лет назад +3

      Very funny thread. Much appreciated!

    • @carljacobs1260
      @carljacobs1260 5 лет назад +15

      Well-behaved men rarely make history. Very few people actually make history if history is defined as "something remembered outside the immediate family". In any case, the purpose of life isn't to make history.
      This was a sad story of a woman who is remembered principally for being the consort of a man involved in a famous gunfight. Did she make wise choices? Did she make choices you would recommend to your own daughter?
      Perhaps she did make history in some sense. But at what cost?

    • @winnifredforbes8712
      @winnifredforbes8712 5 лет назад +6

      Can you imagine what it was like for an independent woman in those days?!

  • @donvernon2966
    @donvernon2966 5 лет назад +17

    History Guy you are a national treasure!!thanks for sharing Your knowledge and with with us all!!

  • @steveb6103
    @steveb6103 5 лет назад +24

    How I love reading the comments! No trolls.

  • @coreyriojas7372
    @coreyriojas7372 5 лет назад +17

    What about Doc. Holiday is life and times. He is part of AMERICAN west.

  • @causwayspeedway
    @causwayspeedway 5 лет назад +27

    You make history well made well told, thanks again History Guy!!

  • @josephgrant6300
    @josephgrant6300 5 лет назад +29

    I just hope she enjoyed her life. Love strong women!

  • @muimasmacho
    @muimasmacho 4 года назад +40

    _"Why Wyatt, you're an oak."_
    _"Now say goodbye to me and go make that spirited actress your own."_
    _"Live Wyatt. Live for me."_

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 3 года назад +3

      Thanks, for always being there, Doc.

    • @iwilltellusoonenough5323
      @iwilltellusoonenough5323 3 года назад +1

      Haha yep lol ....
      " and, I've got two guns...one, for each of ya..."

  • @TimPearcy
    @TimPearcy 5 лет назад +15

    Amazing bit of history. Wyatt Earp happens to be my favorite historical character of the period! Thanks for the great insights!

  • @tamasmarcuis4455
    @tamasmarcuis4455 5 лет назад +321

    Jospehine Marcus was my Great Grandfather's cousin. The correct family name is " Marcuis " which is the Lithuanian version of Marx. SO she would not technically be Prussian but Litvak ( Jewish Lithuanian ). For the most part we lived in an area called "Memelland" but are originally from Kaunas and Vilnius. I knew my Great Grand parents, mostly my Great Grand Mother Ona. She spoke Lithuanian (Cursios dialect which is closer to Latvian), Polish, Platt Deutsche, Hoch Deutsche (mostly for reading), some Russian and a little English. She never used Yiddish with me so I don;t know what her knowledge was there.
    We were forced to move to East Prussia before and after the period of the 1863 uprising. We already had family in the area. The family business mostly related to making and using glass. I know we supplied clear and stained glass used in the Königsberg Stock Exchange building which still stands. We still have the samples, little glass disks the size of a coin which you hold up to the light to gauge the shade.
    Our whole family has a reputation for risky and eccentric behaviour as well being fairly clever. One of our family is said to have convinced the Japanese in 1905 that he was a German who had been pressed into service in the Russian Navy. They released him and he via Hong Kong found his way back to Europe and eventually Konigsberg. Strangely his decedents live in Vladivostok and work for a Japanese owned fishing company.

    • @knutdergroe9757
      @knutdergroe9757 5 лет назад +44

      What a great history of family.
      Thank you for sharing.

    • @boogerie
      @boogerie 5 лет назад +15

      Damn! Beat me to it! And you went into much greater detail than I could manage! Kudos!

    • @ZenZaBill
      @ZenZaBill 5 лет назад +18

      That' a pretty cool story! I looked up the Hills of Eternity Cemetery, and whaddya know? It's about 1/2 hour away from me in the SF Bay Area.

    • @jmgmarcus808
      @jmgmarcus808 5 лет назад +13

      Tamas Marcuis I think we might be related? I do know my Marcus side married into a family named Copeland as in Aaron Copland who is my great, great Uncle or my grandfathers mothers brother.

    • @ronaldomadrebien7045
      @ronaldomadrebien7045 5 лет назад +10

      How interesting, thank you for this

  • @grendalnewgod
    @grendalnewgod 4 года назад +8

    "Who, Behan? He ain't no law. Only real law here's the Cowboys."

  • @MarkH10
    @MarkH10 5 лет назад +7

    I met an Earp Great Grand daughter in high school. My girl friend was her friend who introduced us.
    How about this for history, my girl friend was a Doolittle. Her second cousin put together the raid on Tokyo.
    20 years later I installed cable in the home of the navigator for the raid.

  • @Last_Chance.
    @Last_Chance. 6 месяцев назад +3

    I long to find a woman like that. A queen to love and grow old with. I guess im just a hopeless romantic

  • @lyndabrown-kirkland6641
    @lyndabrown-kirkland6641 4 года назад +14

    All of a sudden RUclips is much more interesting with my discovery of The History Guy. Must share this gem!

    • @Lightning613
      @Lightning613 4 месяца назад

      Even The History Guy was shadow banned and had a Wikipedia disclaimer on one of his History That Needs Remembered episodes . . . .

  • @arlie1118
    @arlie1118 5 лет назад +11

    Terrific research, Wonderful work, you bring history to “life”! So greatly appreciated👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😃

  • @Miken9000
    @Miken9000 5 лет назад +1

    The photo at 5:45 is most definitely not of Josephine Earp. It's a photo titled "kaloma" from the early 1900's. Josephine Earp wouldve been in her 50s when it was taken.

    • @jerianderton8868
      @jerianderton8868 5 лет назад +2

      Quite true. "The History Guy" cuts some corners from time to time.

  • @bigblue6917
    @bigblue6917 5 лет назад +26

    Interesting to hear the other half of a famous couple. Thanks for that.

  • @stevenkeegan6260
    @stevenkeegan6260 5 лет назад +14

    Interesting topic. Thanks for this small slice of the American West.

  • @Cabledeluz1977
    @Cabledeluz1977 5 лет назад +12

    That was really good!! I’m glad this popped up in my feed!!!

  • @handlebar41
    @handlebar41 5 лет назад +68

    I really appreciate this education on someone i knew little of...Thank You

    • @dorothyfritz853
      @dorothyfritz853 4 года назад

      "Hooker Sadie run from Home with 14 "Sadie "Mansfeld"! Johnny Behans Lover..?

  • @donb7113
    @donb7113 5 лет назад +33

    Wichita Kansas is very proud of their history when Wyatt Earp is concerned, and so is Dodge City.

  • @idontwantachannel7542
    @idontwantachannel7542 5 лет назад +10

    I wouldn't mind hearing your take on Etta Place.

  • @janpatterson3969
    @janpatterson3969 5 лет назад +14

    LOVED the story of Josephine Marcus & Wyatt Earp- - just wish it was So much longer!! Thank You...

  • @PelenTan
    @PelenTan 5 лет назад +10

    Ok. You've written an episode that I didn't find interesting. I haven't _found_ that one yet, but I'm sure you _must_ have put one out that I won't enjoy. ;-)
    This definitely puts a new light on the events at the OK Corral and the life of Wyatt Earp. A nice start of the morning.

  • @ZenZaBill
    @ZenZaBill 5 лет назад +6

    3 items - 1) *CONGRATS on hitting 300K subscribers! * 2) I looked up the Hills of Eternity Cemetery, and was surprised to see it's only about 1/2 hour away from me in the SF Bay Area. So, one of these days, with camera in hand... 3) Every time I hear or read about Tombstone or Wyatt Earp, I can't help but remember an old TV show I saw as a kid in 1968, none other than "Spectre of the Gun" from the original Star Trek series.

  • @banjo1241
    @banjo1241 5 лет назад +14

    Outstanding ! There will always be speculation in a biographers ink.

  • @Jay_Hall
    @Jay_Hall 2 года назад +4

    So sad, brings tears to my eyes. :( A love story that stayed through good and bad times,,and I hope God smiles upon them both.

  • @winterhorse
    @winterhorse 5 лет назад +9

    They packed a lot of living in their short lives

  • @MarkSmith-js2pu
    @MarkSmith-js2pu 5 лет назад +6

    Great episode. To think that these two spanned the Wild West, the Gold Rushes and 2 world world wars ending up side by side is mind boggling. I also appreciate your research to bring these stories to us Sir! Thank you 😊

    • @JohnS-il1dr
      @JohnS-il1dr Год назад

      If you mean Wyatt he went through the gold rush and WW1. WW2 started in 1939 Wyatt Earp died 1929.

  • @elainemcmurren8678
    @elainemcmurren8678 5 лет назад +16

    Outstanding! 📜

  • @chanboonyeoh643
    @chanboonyeoh643 5 лет назад +4

    The legendary law man Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929 whereas Josephine Marcus his wife died in 1944
    Wyatt Earp everyone knows was involved in the shoot out with Mclaurys and the Clantons at the OK.Corral in October 1881.Also involved were Doc Holliday and Morgan Earp.

  • @rickyferguson2362
    @rickyferguson2362 5 лет назад +15

    Awesome thanks so much! Your Chanel by far is my favorite! Thank You!!

  • @ronjacobson5112
    @ronjacobson5112 5 лет назад +8

    I live near Tombstone and to this day it is one of my favorite places to visit. Thank you for this historical minute.

  • @swish0078
    @swish0078 5 лет назад +5

    Thanks for the history lesson. I really enjoy your videos. Have you ever heard of the daring escape from Corregidor in WW2? My Grandfather’s brother Glen Swisher was one of 18 sailors of the USS Quail that escaped to Australia. Their Skipper even wrote a book about it “South from Corrigedor”. Would be great to have you talk about it one day.

    • @kmlammto
      @kmlammto 5 лет назад +3

      It would be great to do a multi-part report on the entire 1941-2 Philippines campaign and the largest ordered surrender by US military forces. For that matter, the POW experience is not well documented or known in the US. I say this as a son of a survivor of both Bataan and the Mukden prison camp.

  • @phillully4472
    @phillully4472 5 лет назад +8

    Much in history is most worthy and
    Good to look at time and again!
    I would love to see a piece on the many successes and failures of Thomas Edison that would be a great topic to review from history.
    BTW.. I never knew all those details about Wyatt Earp... kool.

    • @j.stephaniemagnus6444
      @j.stephaniemagnus6444 5 лет назад

      Thomas Edison was a charlatan and cheated Tesla...I have nothing but complete disdain for him.

  • @donc9751
    @donc9751 5 лет назад +6

    I was happy to see this video published by The History Guy! I've read most if the history books I've been able to find on Wyatt Earp and the history of his time in Tuscon and beyound.
    Thanks for posting this video Histiry guy!

  • @jamespeck6890
    @jamespeck6890 5 лет назад +40

    The photo of the camp tent was near their mine across the Colorado River from Parker, Az., in Earp, CA., named in 1929. For a time they resided in a hotel in Parker, Arizona, overlooking the Colorado River. The photo of them sitting to be together as I recall is in their wood frame winter home in the desert, approximately 15 miles west of the Colorado River.

    • @patrioticpitbull8388
      @patrioticpitbull8388 5 лет назад +13

      It was a town called Calzona,about 15 miles south of current day Parker. My friend owns their house that Wyatt had moved 7 miles UP RIVER and it is now a historic place in Vidal,Ca. Josie loved the house and Wyatt had it moved to be closer to his mine,which is approx. 4 miles west of said parcel,as the crow flies.

    • @JackBarrett7
      @JackBarrett7 5 лет назад +2

      Earp, Ca was named for Wyatts family, not himself.

    • @georgeb8701
      @georgeb8701 5 лет назад +3

      @@patrioticpitbull8388 who'da thunk? What a piece of history THAT is. Amazing that the house still stands. Love to see a picture of it. ✌🏻🇺🇸

    • @patrioticpitbull8388
      @patrioticpitbull8388 5 лет назад

      @@georgeb8701 PM me a good email at patrioticputbull5150@hotmail.com and I sure will!

    • @georgeb8701
      @georgeb8701 5 лет назад

      thanks pitbull it's forthcoming✌🏻

  • @cezarmcknight8873
    @cezarmcknight8873 5 лет назад +7

    Excellent, History Guy! Excellent! Keep up the great work!

  • @prof2yousmithe444
    @prof2yousmithe444 5 лет назад +32

    Wow! One needs a scorecard to keep track of who is with whom! Great account of this interesting time!!!

  • @MarkovianMan
    @MarkovianMan 5 лет назад +4

    It's amazing how often they moved, especially in a time when travel was not easy... Pella IA to Wichita KS, then to Dodge City KS, then to Tombstone AZ, then to San Francisco CA, then to Eagle City ID, then to San Diego CA, back again to San Francisco, then to Yuma AZ, on to Nome AK, then to Tonopah NV and finally to Los Angeles.

  • @rick91443
    @rick91443 5 лет назад +9

    For me in France, it's more when I stop for lunch; great stuff...cheers...rr

  • @timothywiener5977
    @timothywiener5977 5 лет назад +3

    Your last comment concerning Josephine's relationships with the leaders of both sides in tombstone, made her reminiscent of and reminded me of Emma of Normandy (985-1052) who was married to the Saxon king of England Aethred the Unready. Then after the invasion, was married to the Viking king of England Harthacnut. To add to her story, first her Viking son became king of England, followed by her Saxon son, Edward the Confessor. and finally, when Edward died, it was Emma's grandnephew, William the Conqueror who sat upon the English throne. If you haven't already done so, perhaps an episode on Emma, possibly the fulcrum upon which England was levered out of the throes of its Medieval and Viking past into a French and Continental trajectory. Before Emma, England faced North towards the Scandinavian world, after Emma England faced East towards France.

  • @tarlach1280x960
    @tarlach1280x960 5 лет назад +8

    Thank you again for such a wonderful informative video.

  • @georgeosborne3282
    @georgeosborne3282 4 года назад +3

    Buenas historias pero deben traducir también en Español. Muchos latinos nos encantaría saber estas buenas historias. Saludos desde Panamá

  • @jonathanheussi6332
    @jonathanheussi6332 5 лет назад +7

    Director John Ford knew the Earps well and spoke fondly of them both. Nice tribute !

    • @JakeNaughtFromStateFarm
      @JakeNaughtFromStateFarm 5 лет назад +1

      I read that the gunfight in “My Darling Clementine,” was done as Earp described it to John Ford.

    • @jacquelinemarie1078
      @jacquelinemarie1078 4 года назад

      too bad he didn't use Earp's material, which he chose not to do. And - - - it would have been nice if he would have thought to film his interviews with Earp, which he didn't do either. He just kept that to himself, for some unknown reason. I know this is a year old, but had to chime in.

  • @belladonnasmoonstardust6474
    @belladonnasmoonstardust6474 5 лет назад +5

    Well said...! 🕊🙏🏻😎 this was really good 👍🏻thank you for sharing 💃🏼

  • @jackn2150
    @jackn2150 5 лет назад +4

    This is now my favorite episode of The History Guy. The details provided illuminate one of my favorite movies, "Tombstone" with Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp. Because I am also a fan of Dana Delaney (she played Josephine in the movie), this episode resonates strongly. As for the movie, no adult thinks it's a documentary (LOL)> But there must have been some effort made at plausibility because the actor who played Sheriff Behan (with just the right makeup) really looks like the real Sheriff Beehan. Thanks - I give this episode five stars.

  • @mosesruben4027
    @mosesruben4027 4 года назад +1

    It has been a joy to watch all your episodes are very informing. The only thing I wish you would do is proofread what you say because there are many Miss spellings and the wrong words put there in the script. This is not a complaint just an observation. Thank you so much for your series. Keep up the good work for many more years to come. This country needs more people like you the tell the truth. to me you will go down in history as a great auditor of little known and forgotten history in the world. So say I, Moses of Englewood Chicago.

  • @peterk8909
    @peterk8909 5 лет назад +6

    Though I always enjoy your historical "snippets", this particular one touched me. Thank you.

  • @norml6874
    @norml6874 4 года назад +1

    Why would they think she was incorrect, wouldn’t she know? It was Her birthday!

  • @MissMaisieBelle
    @MissMaisieBelle 5 лет назад +6

    I throughly enjoyed this and will be looking forward to seeing more.

  • @scottriley1913
    @scottriley1913 4 года назад +3

    I would like to correct my comments at this point and give complete consideration to the memory of John Henry Holiday, i.e., established dentist and purveyor of law and order........with some minor characters flaws.

  • @markwhite1780
    @markwhite1780 5 лет назад +30

    RobotSlug i most certainly agree about the way to start the day. I got up an hour early to catch THG while my wife and dogs still slumber. Sounds like a chain saw that's out of gas in the bedroom.

    • @harrisp584
      @harrisp584 5 лет назад

      You shouldn't call your children that

    • @wandak3025
      @wandak3025 4 года назад

      What do you sound like when asleep Rolling thunder?

  • @greensahuaro2834
    @greensahuaro2834 Год назад +1

    So that means they experienced World War I of 1919. Hm?! They saw lots of progress too quick, the light bulb, electric trains, telegraph, I think the car, the airplane...I rhink! hm! It most have been shocking!

  • @alfredagreen7096
    @alfredagreen7096 5 лет назад +5

    Beautiful narrative....
    I'm so very glad you told this story. -Freda 💛

  • @Jackielocks
    @Jackielocks 5 месяцев назад +1

    That was a great piece! I subscribed and am so stoked to have found this awesome history channel!♥️I Love History!!♥️ Thank you!😊
    Wasn’t it so surprisingly relatable to life now when Wyatt Earp spoke about how the times and the people were changing so much and how things that had been quite acceptable earlier in his life were now becoming either frowned upon, completely unacceptable or even illegal? I think that probably happens to every generation, at least to some extent. There are many things that were perfectly acceptable when I was growing up (late 60’s-1980’s) that you would either be shunned (or a viral shaming perhaps?)or thrown in jail for now.

  • @draizwrm
    @draizwrm 5 лет назад +8

    interesting ..thank you.. i had heard of Maddie, but not of Josephine

    • @bobmorgan1762
      @bobmorgan1762 5 лет назад +4

      Mr_Wizard You must see the movie, “Tombstone.” Dana Delaney plays Josephine...perfectly!