- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] For three years, while Wyatt Earp was Marshal at Ellsworth, Wichita and Dodge City, he had risked his life many times by shooting to disable hoodlums rather than kill them. These hoodlums began to trade on Wyatt's compassion. Now in Dodge City, the McAlester Brothers were to force Wyatt with the hard choice of shooting to kill or be killed.