- [first lines]
- Narrator: In 1879, Dodge City's day as rip-roaring town had dimmed into peaceful twilight. Under the stern law enforcement of Marshal Wyatt Earp, Judge Tobin and Mayor Kelly, Dodge was almost civilized. The chief remaining problem was that Wyatt had a number of friends like Bat Masterson and Ben Thompson, who couldn't understand that the era of saloon brawls and gunfighting in Kansas was at an end.
- Wyatt Earp: Mr. Mayor, we can keep law and order here in Dodge City, but what we can't do is turn our people into saints.
- Mayor Jim Kelly: My mind's made up!
- Wyatt Earp: Yeah. I was afraid of that.
- Wyatt Earp: [to Bat Masterson] When civilization does come to Dodge City, I hope you won't be the last heathen shaking your fist at it.
- [last lines]
- [Bat learns that Sweetie is moving to Denver]
- Bat Masterson: Denver is my kind of town.
- Wyatt Earp: Don't stay there too long. You'll find that civilization is crawling right up those mountains to Denver, too.
- Bat Masterson: Then I'll move west and keep on movin'. I'll see you in Arizona Territory, huh?
- Wyatt Earp: Could be. You know, I wish you could find some sweet little gal that could settle you down.
- Bat Masterson: Not me! So long, Wyatt.
- Wyatt Earp: So long, Mr. Masterson.