Editing Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (section)

=== Earp and Behan attracted to Josephine Marcus ===
Wyatt Earp and [[Cochise County]] [[sheriff]] [[Johnny Behan]] were interested in the same sheriff's position and also might have shared an interest in the same woman, [[Josephine Marcus]], known as Sadie. Citizens of Tombstone believed that Behan and Sadie were married, but Behan was a known womanizer and had sex with prostitutes and other women. In early 1881, Sadie ended the relationship after she came home and found Behan in bed with the wife of a friend<ref name=heritagebarra>{{cite web|last=Barra|first=Alan|title=Who Was Wyatt Earp?|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/content/who-was-wyatt-earp?page=show|publisher=American Heritage|access-date=April 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507101535/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1998/8/1998_8_76.shtml |archive-date=May 7, 2006 }}</ref> and kicked him out,<ref name=rasmussen>{{cite news|last=Rasmussen|first=Cecilia|title=LA Then and Now: Mrs. Wyatt Earp Packed Her Own Punch|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-04-me-37325-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 4, 2000|access-date=January 27, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106115959/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/04/local/me-37325|archive-date=November 6, 2013}}</ref> although she used the Behan surname through the end of that summer. She rented her home sometime before April 1881 to [[George E. Goodfellow|Dr. George Goodfellow]].

Wyatt Earp lived with [[Mattie Blaylock]],<ref name=autogenerated4>{{cite book|last=Marks|first=Paula Mitchell|title=And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight|year=1996|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|isbn=978-0-8061-2888-7|edition=paperback}}</ref>{{rp|159|date=November 2012}} who was listed as his wife in the 1880 census. She had a growing addiction to the opiate [[laudanum]], which was readily available at the time.<ref name=wwad>{{cite web|last=Calchi |first=Pat |title=Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp |url=http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/389WesternWomen/calchi.html |publisher=Western Women's Autobiographies Database |access-date=April 15, 2011 |location=New York |date=Fall 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615052322/http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/389WesternWomen/calchi.html |archive-date=June 15, 2010 }}</ref> Earp remained with Blaylock until he left Tombstone in April 1882. There are no contemporary Tombstone records that indicate a relationship between Sadie and Earp, but Earp certainly knew her, because both Behan and Earp had offices above the Crystal Palace Saloon.<ref name=aker>{{cite web |url=http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/10/doc-goodfellow-arizonas-gutsiest-physician-from-the-territorial-days/#sthash.IEkaqdrW.dpuf |title=Doc Goodfellow: Arizona's Gutsiest Physician from the Territorial Days |date=October 19, 2009 |first=Andrea |last=Aker |access-date=March 4, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307204203/http://arizonaoddities.com/2009/10/doc-goodfellow-arizonas-gutsiest-physician-from-the-territorial-days/#sthash.IEkaqdrW.dpuf |archive-date=March 7, 2013 }}</ref>

Sadie, traveling as either Mrs. J. C. Earp or Mrs. Wyatt Earp, left for Los Angeles on March 25, 1882,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |volume=17 |number=29 |date=March 25, 1882 |access-date=October 2, 2014 |title=Passengers Due This Evening |url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18820325.2.21&srpos=1&e=01-03-1882-01-04-1882--en--20-LAH-1--txt-txIN-Passengers+Due+This+Evening++earp------ |page=3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112000917/http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18820325.2.21&srpos=1&e=01-03-1882-01-04-1882--en--20-LAH-1--txt-txIN-Passengers+Due+This+Evening++earp------ |archive-date=November 12, 2014 }}</ref> and then returned to her family in San Francisco. In July 1882, Wyatt left Colorado and went to San Francisco,<ref name=mattie>{{cite web|url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-womenlist-b.html|title=The Complete List of Historical Women – Last Name Begins with B|publisher=LegendsofAmerica.com|access-date=March 1, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318191932/http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-womenlist-b.html|archive-date=March 18, 2011}}</ref> where he sought out Sadie and his brother Virgil, who was seeking treatment for his arm.<ref name=woog>{{cite book |title=Wyatt Earp |last=Woog |first=Adam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_y9wsnur9R0C |publisher=Chelsea House Publications |year= 2010 |isbn=978-1-60413-597-8 |page=110 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529144528/https://books.google.com/books?id=_y9wsnur9R0C |archive-date=May 29, 2016 }}</ref>{{rp|29}} In February or March 1883, Sadie and Earp left San Francisco for [[Gunnison, Colorado|Gunnison]], where Earp ran a Faro bank until he received a request in April for assistance from Luke Short in Dodge City.<ref name=tefertiller>{{cite book |title=Wyatt Earp – Life Behind The Legend |url=https://archive.org/details/wyattearplifebeh00tefe |url-access=registration |first=Casey |last= Tefertiller|year=1997 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc.}}</ref>{{rp|275–298}} Sadie was his common-law wife for the next 46 years.<ref name=woog/>{{rp|29}}