[SamAdams76]

Kip Carson - a real person, with real heroics - was aa hero to many in the country at a time the first Harper's article about Wild Bill was written. By linking Hickock to him, both physically and thematically, the author and later storytellers were not just taking a shortcut in describing his characteristics. They set out a lineage of the frontier, a line of heroes that spoke to their readers. They knew Carson's qualities - independence, courage, a sense of justice, and above all self-reliance; they saw then again in HIckock, and in countless others in the West. These were qualities they understood innately, traits they associated with the West, and more important, their country, and themselves.

[tomkat]

Wrong thread, perhaps ?  ;-)

[piasa]

Kip Carson - a real person, with real heroics - was aa hero to many in the country at a time the first Harper's article about Wild Bill was written. By linking Hickock to him, both physically and thematically, the author and later storytellers were not just taking a shortcut in describing his characteristics.

Was he Kit's little brother?

[untenured]

I remember when Google used to have a button to take you to a random website. Is this like that?

[WashingtonSource]

Kip Carson - a real person, with real heroics - was a hero to many in the country . . .

His nickname was Kit, not Kip. His real name is Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868).

[HeadOn]

In order for an infinite geometric series to have a sum, the common ratio r must be between −1 and 1. Then as n increases, r**n gets closer and closer to 0. To find the sum of an infinite geometric series having ratios with an absolute value less than one, use the formula, S=a1/(1−r), where a1 is the first term and r is the common ratio.