In 1924, she married , an eccentric amateur archaeologist fifteen years her senior, who claimed to have found evidence of a lost Viking settlement in the Mojave Desert. The wedding lasted six months. The divorce lasted three years.
— M. Forrester, Strange Histories
Then came the Van Wylde part.
In April 1928, Cubbi Thompson Van Wylde drove a rented Pierce-Arrow from Los Angeles to the Mojave, telling her housekeeper she was “going to see what Julian was so scared of.” She brought a .22 caliber revolver, three changes of clothes, and a leather-bound journal with a brass lock. cubbi thompson van wylde
To this day, the journal sits in a climate-controlled box. Catalog number: MS.VW.1928.0001. Status: In 1924, she married , an eccentric amateur