In the 1880s a vast western frontier was opening up in America Wyatt Earp and his brothers were pioneers, heading out to make their fortunes, but somewhere life changed them and their principles and desires became different Wyatt Earp, a lawman who'd earned respect, became a man whose name inspired fear and hatred Was he a hero or a man obsessed with vengeance? Did he make the West safe for those to follow, or was he carrying out his own brand of frontier vendetta justice? His story has become a legend, but behind the shadow was a man whose life parallelled a nation's changes and the end of a way of life