Courtney, Bradley G. Prescott’s Original Whiskey Row. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015.
Courtney reconstructs an October 1877 Prescott episode in which Virgil Earp joined a posse after a confrontation connected to Jackson & Tompkins' Saloon.
Bradley G. Courtney, Prescott’s Original Whiskey Row (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015), chap. 5, “Jackson & Tompkins’ Saloon.”
Bradley G. Courtney, Prescott’s Original Whiskey Row (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015), chap. 5, “Jackson & Tompkins’ Saloon.”
Chapter 5; supplied PDF sheet 71; ebook display page 59 of 145
Chapter 5; supplied PDF sheet 67; ebook display page 57 of 145
Courtney, Prescott’s Original Whiskey Row, chap. 5.
Chapter 5 — Jackson & Tompkins' Saloon; Wilson–Tullos episode
Locator and sequence verified against supplied PDF sheets 67–71. The stronger career-origin interpretation remains unverified against the cited 1877 newspapers.
Use note
Present the episode as Courtney’s reconstruction. Do not state that it began Earp’s law-enforcement career as settled fact.