- Narrator: [Opening Narration] Wyatt Earp, as Marshal of Wichita in 1875, had gone against hardened killers, like Mannen Clemens and John Wesley Hardin, mature men with a lust for blood and a quick hand on the grip of a Colt .45. But there was a group of desperadoes, most of them 18 to 20 years old, who styled themselves Billy the Kid, the Pecos Kid, or the Comanche Kid. A few of them, like young Lonnie McVey, known as the Kansas Kid, found himself hounded by a reputation and drilled towards death at the end of a posse's rope.