Earp Historical Timeline Page 10

Colorado, Idaho, and San Diego

• 1884, January 15 - Wyatt Earp and Josie are in Fort Worth, Texas.
• 1884, January 17 - Wyatt and Josie take the train to Trinidad, Colorado. Their ultimate destination is Eagle City, Idaho where there is a strike.
• 1884, January 26 - The Earps take the steamer, Amelia Wheaton, to the Mission.
• 1884, January 30 - After more overland travel, the Earp party arrives in Eagle City, Idaho. The very next day Wyatt and James are looking for a good claim.
• 1884, January 31 - Jim and Wyatt retire for the evening to the Acion Saloon where, late, an impromptu election is held making Wyatt deputy sheriff of Kootenai County.
• 1884, February 1 - There is fierce competition for claims with a rather tricky legal situation. A.J. Prichard has illegally filed claims over much of the area by proxy. In turn the locals (which now include Wyatt and Jim Earp) stake claims over his prior claim. This leads to intense legal difficulities in the area.
• 1884, April 2 - Wyatt Earp files for the Eagle Creek Placer claim.
• 1884, April 4 - There is a shoot out in Eagle City over a town lot. Wyatt Earp and Jim Earp wade in as representives of law and order.
• 1884, April 7 - Jim and Wyatt, with partners, finalize a number of important real estate deals in Eagle City.
• 1884, April 15 - Wyatt pays one dollar to W.H. Carroll of Fort Coeur d'Alene for a share in the Point of Rock claim in Eagle Creek.
• 1884, April 26 - Wyatt buys the tent that will be the White Elephant Saloon.
• 1884, April 30 - Wyatt buys five acres.
• 1884, May 1 - Wyatt buys the Golden Gate claim.
• 1884, May 10 - Wyatt and his partners locate a number of claims.
• 1884, May 20 - Law suit is brought against the Earp brothers that they jumped a claim. The Earps won on July 25.
• 1884, May 29 - Jim Earp locates the Jessie Jay claim.
• 1884, Early June - Warren Earp joins his brothers, moves in with Jim who still has sent for the ailing Bessie to join him in the rough gold camp.
• 1884, June 9 - Andy Prichard sues Wyatt for claim jumping and wins.
• 1884, June 19/20 - After Thomas Steele abuses a woman in the street he's shot and killed by Danny Ferguson, who surrenders to Wyatt Earp as deputy sheriff. Later, however, he flees since Steele's friends have it in for him.
• 1884, August 15 - The Earps take delivery of a new pump.
• 1884, September 20 - The gold camp in the Coeur d'Alene is panned out and Wyatt, Jim, and Josie pull up stakes. Warren stays in the area. Shortly after Jim heads back to California to be with his Bessie, who dies.
• 1884, December 3 - Josie and Wyatt travel from Colorado to Raton, New Mexico at the request of the Wells Fargo. There Wyatt turns down the job of Deputy Sheriff at the behest of Josie.
• 1884, December 6 - Josie and Wyatt go to the Raton horse races.
• 1884, December 12 - The local newspaper takes note of Wyatt Earp's presence in town.
• 1884, December 26 - The White Elephant is sold for non-payment of back taxes.
• 1885, April 15 - The Earps were in El Paso where Wyatt was witness to a fatal gunfight in the Gem Saloon and was to testify later at the inquest.
• 1885, May - The Earps are in Aspen where Wyatt goes into partnership with H.C. Hughes in the Fashion Saloon.
• 1885, October - Deputy U.S. Marshal E.M. Mills recruits Wyatt to arrest a stage robber by the name of James Crothers.
• 1885, Late (maybe '86) - In Denver the Earps run into Doc Holliday at the Windsor Hotel. Josie was to recall it as a tender reunion.
• 1887, Early - The Police Gazette runs a story recapping the Tombstone story.
• 1887 - Wyatt and Josie join Virgil and Allie in San Diego, buying up property. Possibly Bat Masterson was there too. San Diego was experiencing a big land boom at this time. Wyatt owned or leased at least four saloons as well as numerous other properties.
• 1887, September 14 - Ike Clanton is shot and killed by detective J.V. Brighton who was hired to chase down outlaws.
• 1887, November 8 - John Henry Holliday dies in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
• 1888, July 3 - Celia Ann Blaylock, also known as Mattie Earp, dies of a laudanum overdose in Globe, Arizona.
• 1888, July 8 - Virgil buys a house in Colton, California and deeds all his Colton property to his wife Allie.
• 1888 - Wyatt is referee for prize fights in San Diego, along with interests in horse racing and gambling. At thist time Wyatt and Jose made friends with Lucky Baldwin.

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  Historians : Found an error? Please feel free to email me at wyatt@panhistoria.com with corrections.

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  Sources:
  The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp by Bob Boze Bell, Boze Books, 1993
  Wyatt Earp and the Coeur d'Alene Gold!: Stampede to Idaho Territory, by Jerry Dolph and Arthur Randall, Eagle City Publishing, 1999
  Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend, by Casey Tefertiller, John Wiley & Sons, 1999
  Wyatt Earp: The Missing Years, San Diego in the 1880's, by Kenneth R. Cilch and Kenneth R. Cilch, Jr., Gaslamp Books, 1998
  The Earp Papers : In a Brother's Image by Don Chaput
  The Truth About Wyatt Earp by Richard E. Erwin