- Narrator: The frontier theater, in 1875, was almost as rough and tough as the frontier saloon. Wyatt Earp, as Marshal of Wichita, found himself saddled with the job of keeping order at the town's music hall where all kinds of shows and all sorts of characters bid for popular favor. Usually, the shows were pretty good, but usually the cowboy customers were full of liquor and bad temper. Their reaction to the drama was simple and primitive - if they liked the show, they threw money on the stage; if they didn't like it, they started a riot. But in the case of Jeff Pruitt and his carnival honky tonk...