The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955

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Narrator:
On the Kansas frontier in the late 1870s, what men called justice was often savage. Alleged rustlers and horse thieves were often hanged by their captors without trial. Judges like Roy Bean and Oklahoma Parker ordered men to the gallows for crimes that today would be punished by imprisonment. Wyatt Earp, as marshal of Dodge City, was one of many peace officer who stood against lynch law and the severity of so-called legal justice. When Dal Royal, a Texas cowhand was sentenced to be hanged for murder, Marshal Earp and Sheriff Bat Masterson staged a two-man fight against the cruel indifference of the public and the blood-lust of the gallows.