The Forgotten Woman Beside Wyatt Earp: The Tragic Story of Mattie Blaylock

In 1870, Wyatt married a young woman named Urilla Sutherland. Their happiness was short-lived.

Only months after their wedding, Urilla died from typhoid fever while pregnant with their child.

The loss shattered Wyatt.

Friends later described him as a man consumed by grief.

Unable to cope with the tragedy, he drifted across the expanding American frontier, taking whatever work he could find.