Earp’s legacy. She was also in need of money, and tried to sell a collection of books to Lake while he was writing the book. Josephine finally changed her mind and asked Wyatt's cousins to burn their work, but Cason held back a copy, to which Glenn Boyer eventually acquired the rights, and is now in the custody of the Ford County Historical Society in Dodge City. The University of Arizona Press published the book in 1976 under the title I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus. It was immensely popular for many years, becoming the university's fourth all-time best selling book with over 35,000 copies sold. It was cited by scholars and relied upon as factual by filmmakers. Beginning in about 1994, critics began to challenge the accuracy of the book, and eventually many parts of the book were refuted as fictional. In 1998, a series of articles by Tony Ortega in the Phoenix New Times, including interviews with Glenn Boyer, argued that Boyer invented large portions of the book. In 2000, the University responded to criticism of the university and the book and removed it from their catalog. The book has become an example of how supposedly factual works can trip up researchers, historians, and librarians. It was described by the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology in 2006 as a creative exercise that cannot be substantiated or relied on. Plays and films I Married Wyatt Earp (1983) played by Marie Osmond Tombstone (1993) – played by Dana Delany Wyatt Earp (1994) – played by Joanna Going I Married Wyatt Earp, an all-female musical, produced off-Broadway in 2011. References External links Lady Sadie Rare Original Letters: Josephine "Sadie" Earp 1914 "Kaloma" valse hesitante by "Gire Goulineaux", a pseudonym of Johann C. Schmid (1970–1951) Western Women’s Autobiographies Database History of Cochise County, Arizona Arizona folklore 1860 births 1944 deaths Actresses from San Diego American people of German-Jewish descent Cochise County conflict People from Prescott, Arizona People of the American Old West 20th-century American actresses Arizona pioneers People from Tombstone, Arizona Josephine People from Tonopah, Nevada Burials at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park