Citation Notes
Courtney, chap. 5, “Jackson & Tompkins’ Saloon.”
Citation Readiness
Ready
Claim ID
277
Claim Status
Used in Draft
Claim Text
Courtney reconstructs an October 1877 Prescott incident, beginning with a saloon confrontation, in which Virgil Earp was deputized into a posse and participated in the pursuit of Wilson and Tullos.
Claim Type
Narrative
Confidence
High
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Counterevidence Sources
Drafts
Evidence Strength
Strong
Fact Check Notes
Fact Check Status
Verified
Historical Events
Originating Working Notes
Qualifications
Do not state that the episode began Earp's law-enforcement career as fact. That interpretation awaits checking against the cited 1877 newspaper accounts.
Reasoning
High confidence that the source presents this sequence; the claim is deliberately framed as Courtney's reconstruction.
Review Notes
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No access
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Evidence boundary
Ready only as an attributed account. The career-origin interpretation is excluded from settled public prose.