Celia Ann (Mattie) Blaylock (1850 to July 3, 1888) was the romantic companion of Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp. Mattie was born in Wisconsin, but raised in Fairfax, Iowa. She ran away from home at the age of sixteen, and made her way down into Kansas by first working as a prostitute in Scott City, then later in Dodge City. She and Wyatt are believed to have met in or around late 1873. Like most of the women associated with the Earp brothers, … Wikipedia
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