- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] There's been much nonsense written about gun fighting on the frontier. Marshal Earp recognized only a few legitimate gun fighters. The rest, he commented, got their fame from shooting drunks and slowpoke amateurs. As the case of young Mitch Hallam proved, once a man reached the small company of top guns, other experts rarely challenged. There was no percentage in a shootout where men of equal speed would probably kill each other.