- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] They had a juvenile-delinquent problem in 1878, too. Kids from the small towns and cities of the East and Middle West headed for the frontier in search of excitement and reputations as outlaws. Dodge City had a plague of these brats and Marshal Wyatt Earp didn't have a child guidance expert or a psychiatrist to tell him just what to do. Marshal Wyatt Earp used plain common horse sense.