... . She ran away from home at nineteen, and traveled with a Pinafore dance troop. She was the girlfriend of the pro-Clanton sheriff, Johnny Behan (Peterson, 2). Wyatt and Josephine got close while Wyatt and his wife, Mattie, were still married. Then, whenever she died, Josie and Wyatt married (America..., 2). In 1881, the feud between the ... all showed a tough pride, even arrogance, and a certain disregard for life, expressed in a common tendency to "kill when provoked.' Two gamblers might resort to gun play, as might two drunken cowboys. But ominously, and increasingly, a line of enmity w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... what he had in Griffin, Georgia and moved south to just outside Valdosta, a small town named Bemiss. The move most likely saved both his assets and his life, since General Sherman and the bluecoats went right through Griffin in their march to the sea. All together, some fourteen members of John ... of 1875. He assumed the alias of Tom Mackey in order to start a new life and, perhaps, calm the lifestyle that had kept his sickness active. He got a job dealing faro and largely stayed to himself. Yet, in early 1876, after hearing stories of the booming city of Cheyenne, Doc quickly ... the...

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• Grade Level: High School