Mattie

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Hancock House Publishers

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491_9780888396280

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The first book to reveal the life of Wyatt Earp's second wife. Mattie Blaylock, born Celia Ann Blaylock, was Wyatt Earp's second wife and ultimately became his darkest secret. Had Mattie not run away from her Iowa farm and family at age 18, she might have married a neighbor and lived to old age surrounded by children and grandchildren. Instead, hating the control of her strict parents, she was seduced by the dubious promises of the night life and bright lights of frontier towns, and embraced the 'sporting life'; she was working in a brothel when she met and married the young, handsome - and, at the time, fugitive - Wyatt Earp in 1871. With Wyatt, Mattie led a transient life, learning all there was to know about the management of brothels under the watchful eye of Bessie Earp, the wife of Wyatt's brother, James, and becoming addicted to opium and whiskey. For ten years Mattie went where Wyatt went and did what he wanted, only to end up deserted and alone when, in 1882, Wyatt ran off with a sloe-eyed beauty of doubtful morals ten years Mattie's junior. During those ten years though, life with Wyatt was a dizzying ride. They met in Fort Scott, Kansas, as rough a western town as could be found anywhere, around 1871. Mattie was a 'soiled dove' at one of the town's bagnios when she met Wyatt; he was passing through town, having jumped bail in Fort Smith, Arkansas where he faced horse-stealing charges. Wyatt had no intention of staying so close to Arkansas, so in December 1871 he and Mattie caught a train bound for Peoria, Illinois. There they teamed up with his brother, Morgan, and the trio went to work for one of Peoria's madams, Mattie in her usual role and Wyatt and Morgan as bouncers and pimps. After ten months of diverse fortunes, including thirty days in jail for the boys, Wyatt and Mattie headed for Kansas. A year later they surfaced in Wichita. Wyatt eventually signed on with the police force while Mattie team

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