- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] The long feud between Texas cattlemen and the frontier Kansas cow towns was a projection of Civil War bitterness. The cattlemen hated Wyatt Earp because he was a Yankee from Illinois and because he was trying to tame Dodge City, the cowboy capital. Of all the schemes to get rid of Wyatt Earp, the one cooked up by Lon Ashby was the most subtle and deadly.