- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] A certain story once told of three gunfighters bullying a Western town while the gallant Sheriff had to fight them alone. How the old timers of Wichita, Abilene and Dodge City must have laughed at such a yarn. Frontier towns in the 70s were settled by veterans of Union and Confederate battles, veterans who still knew how to fight. So in 1878, when a hoodlum outfit led by Dan Burden, tried to rob a bank in Dodge City while Marshal Wyatt Earl and his deputies were away.