The Henry Big Boy Lever Action rifle with the Ruger Vaquero revolver to honor this date in Old West history when Morgan Earp was born in 1854 in Pella, Marian County, Iowa to Nicholas Earp and his second wife, Virginia Anne Cooksey. He served as a deputy marshal under Charlie Basset in Dodge City before moving to Arizona where along with brother, Wyatt, worked as shotgun messenger for the Wells Fargo company, and deputy sheriff of Pima County and deputy marshal in Tombstone. This photo of Morgan was taken around 1881 in Tombstone, before the famous gunfight at the OK Corral. Morgan was shot and killed on March 18, 1882 at the age of 30.
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