The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955

Narrator:
When Wyatt Earp was Marshal of Wichita, Kansas in 1875, one of the serious problems which he had to deal with was the runaway boy from the East. Hundreds of such youngsters, incited by the lurid, dime novels about cowboys, Indians, and outlaws, left their homes in Eastern towns and cities for the wild, exiting life on the Western frontier. If today's comic books have a bad effect on many juvenile readers, they are mild compared to the bloody sensationalism of paperback thrillers, which lured the youth of earlier times to seek adventure in the brawling violence of cattle trails and cow towns.