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.
He served as a lawman.
He gambled.
He hunted buffalo.
He moved constantly from one rough frontier town to another.
And somewhere during those uncertain years, he met a woman named Mattie Blaylock.
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