The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955

Narrator:
Cattle wars and fights between railroad men and buffalo hunters were common in the lusty and brawling 1870s. But the great stage line fight known as the Tea-Woods Battle presented Marshal Wyatt Earp with something new in organized violence. Mike Teague and Dan Woodruff were bitter rivals in the stage line wagon and freight business. It was still a lucrative enterprise for short haul traffic which the railroads couldn't handle. The great network of short line steel, west of Kansas City, would not be built until the 1880s. Thus, Teague and Woodruff were rich men with a lot of money and the ruthlessness of old time ball whackers.