[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?

[Grimmy]

Was he Kit’s little brother?

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Isn’t he the guy that started early western competitive bar gymnastics out on the Great Plains as part of the instruction in agility for young hunters going after the dreaded buffalo monsters?