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...EARP BROTHERS OF TOMBSTONE (247 pp.}-Frank Waters- Clarkson N. Potter...
...case of "Aunt Allie" Sullivan Earp, wife of Virgil, the little woman even had a sewing machine; she took it with her wherever the trigger-happy Earp brothers moved and, sneer as they might, she refused to give it up, even threatening to leave her husband rather than the machine. The money Aunt Allie earned by taking in sewing supported the whole Earp tribe much of the time, and not their gambling "br their holdups...
...Only Man. The dashing legend surrounding the Earp brothers-Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan-has been debunked before, but not from this special feminine viewpoint. That is what lends interest to this sagebrush history, based largely on the reminiscences of the late Allie Sullivan Earp, who sat down with Author Waters in 1936 to recall the days when her family's menfolk were the scourge of Tombstone, Ariz...
Born to poor Irish immigrants at a Mormon wagon stop in Nebraska, Allie Sullivan was a pert 17, working as a waitress, when tall, red-mustached Virgil Earp shambled into a Council Bluffs cafe for grub one day in 1864. "Virge was the only man I ever loved or got married to," recalls Allie. "For any woman one good man's plenty and one poor one's too many...
...Forest, the cinder mountains piled up by a geological era of active volcanoes. Southward lie the butte-strewn sands where Apache Chief Geronimo waged the last Indian Wars upon whites, the rich, old copper mines producing one-half of U.S. needs, such legendary towns as Tombstone, where Gunslingers Wyatt Earp & Co. built the legends that feed to day's TV. Along the Mexican border, the rambling ranches still raise cattle, which for the first time in 1953 outnumbered the state's people population...