- Narrator: The friendship between Wyatt Earp and Ben Thompson, outlaw, killer, and one of the fastest hands with a .45 in the Western country was a great trial for Marshal Earp. Wyatt had won Ben's gratitude by saving his drunken brother from the gallows. In return, Ben had saved Wyatt from being bushwhacked in Wichita. Now as Marshal of Dodge City, Wyatt would have been more than satisfied to call matters even.