The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Initially resistant to becoming a lawman, Wyatt Earp has a change of heart after seeing the sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas murdered by the inebriated brother of town scourge Ben Thompson.

Earp's insistence on patiently stalking the Thompson brothers with a pair of Indian scouts doesn't set well with some Ellsworth citizens who demand immediate capture of the two fugitives.

A quick-tempered former Confederate officer with a grudge against Wyatt threatens to destroy Ellsworth if Wyatt is not immediately stripped of his badge and run out of town.

Wyatt leaves Ellsworth and becomes the Marshall of Wichita. His first challenge is a group of local vigilantes intent on hanging a man that may have been acting in self-defense.

Bennett hires a gunman to shoot Earp who brags he has faced down Earp before. However, Earp doesn't know him so he suspects there is more to the gunman's story.

Earp is blamed for the back shooting of the saloon owner Bennett after exposing his crooked games.

After Earp kicks Bennett out of Wichita for a crooked Faro game, Bennett hires the killer Mannon Clemens to kill Earp and have his cowboys tree the town.

John Wesley Hardin comes to Wichita to seek revenge on Earp for running his friend Clemens out of Wichita.

Wounded bank robber Clem Parker and his girl Bonnie Dawson want no part of Tarp Anders' brash gang of thieves, but Wyatt isn't sure whether to believe them or not.

Texan A.H. 'Shanghai' Pierce tries to use his money and influence to make Wichita an open town again by hiring a well known actress to get to Earp.

Earp is appointed chairman of a baby contest run by the local women. When a poor woman with a baby arrives in town, Earp enters her in the contest but finds a hidden rule may ruin the plans.

Local gamblers feeling pressure from Earp concoct a scheme to force the mayor of Wichita to get rid of Earp.

An immature rancher's son forced to sell a herd at a low price tries to make up the difference in a poker game while drunk and loses.

The young runaway son of a powerful railroad executive wants to become a gun-toting cowhand, but Wyatt manages to teach him some far more important lessons about honor and self-reliance.

A man with a brash manner and a large gun visits Wichita hoping to interest Marshall Earp in joining a Wild West Show.

Earp has been using sanitary laws to close crooked saloons as Ben Thompson comes to Wichita to open one.

Earp takes an interest in Mamie Perkins but there is something amiss in the relationship even though his friends hope they marry.

Earp kicks a crooked gambler out of Wichita so three saloon owners decide to hire two gunmen to assassinate Earp, but he gets wind of the plot.

Bill Slocum is accused by Duke Wilson of rustling. They take him in Wichita with plans to lynch him outside town but Earp stops them.