The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955

Narrator:
The greatest factor in Wyatt Earp's career as a Western Marshal was his intelligence. He could shoot quick but he could think faster. Earp was a rough and ready psychologist who studied his adversaries while other frontier Marshals had no idea but to shoot them down. Unfortunately, the gunfighters, cowboys and outlaws of Wichita in 1875 seldom appreciated Marshal Earp's intellectual methods, and his friends warned him that it was much safer to shoot first and think afterwards. In the case of young Turner Ashby, it looked as if they were right.