- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] Historians have written a great deal of nonsense about women on the Western frontier in the 1870s. Except for Indian raids, they were supposed to be protected by noble and chivalrous white men. Actually, the pioneer woman was in continual danger from bullies and hoodlums who joined the migration toward the West. The story of Martha Hildreth is a classic example of what it meant to be a pioneer woman.