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...Wyatt Earp's Boy. Gibson, himself under indictment for conspiring to muscle in on the earnings of former Welterweight Champion Don Jordan, was followed by a parade of less communicative witnesses. Among them...
...artist who once managed Jack Dempsey, and the moving spirit behind a boxing managers' guild, whose "good will" Gibson claimed to have purchased at a cost of $130,000. Kearns's chief contribution: a bland assertion that as a young boxer he himself was managed by Wyatt Earp and knocked around Alaska with Author Jack London...
...Town. In his own way, sullen, brooding Virgil Earp was plenty good to the woman he considered his wife. (Among other bits of Earpiana, Waters has discovered that Virgil and Allie never bothered with a wedding.) But over and over again, Allie's few belongings were packed into a Studebaker wagon as Virgil drifted west from Council Bluffs to Tombstone, where he joined forces with the rest of the Earp clan...
...downtown gambling and gun toting, because the men always kept their women out of sight; to her, the legendary Tombstone years were primarily a time of waiting and worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie and Mattie got tired of being cooped up while...
Toward the Sun. Eventually, the Earp men met their various grim ends. Aunt Allie herself lived on until 1947, a spry pioneer widow who entertained her friends with stories tall and small. "Nature's good to folks," she used to say. "They never remember the rain and the storm when the sun comes out. That's why at my funeral I don't want nothin' but heaps of sunflowers. They're so full of life, always turnin' their faces toward...