Arrival in Arizona
The facts about Sadie's arrival and her life in Tombstone are obscured by the fact that she refused to disclose in detail what took place. After Wyatt's death, Sadie collaborated with two of her husband's cousins, Mabel Earp Cason and Cason's sister Vinola Earp Ackerman, to document her life. The cousins recorded events in Sadie's later life but found Sadie was evasive about her early life in Tombstone.
Based on Sadie's manuscript and other sources she may have actually left San Francisco as early October 1874, arriving in Arizona at age 13 or 14. In I Married Wyatt Earp, she wrote that one day, "I left my home one morning, carrying my books just as though I was going to school as usual." In her memoirs, she claimed that she was 18 years old and ran away with two friends, Dora Hirsch, daughter of her music teacher, and another girl named Agnes who had a role in the San Francisco Pauline Markham troupe's presentation of H.M.S. Pinafore.
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