Talk:Evans repeating rifle

Needs Work

So I saw this page on Pages for cleanup, and found that this article is more or less the first source word-for-word. I started on fixing it, rewriting the paragraphs for old model and transition model, but it's too late at night for me to do any more. I'll continue to work on it as time permits. The sources are good, it just needs rewriting. Howicus (talk) 05:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC) →Oh, I edited the Design section too. Howicus (talk) 05:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

If the gun wasn't invented until 1873 how could a man who died in 1868 possibly have shot it? None the less used it in a show. Kit Carson died on May 23,1868. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.10.232.16 (talk) 14:23, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

I saw the same thing as above, but thought it was worth noting that the first patent date was before the 1873 date that was listed above, so if Kit Carson shot one it was a pre-production prototype before a patent was issued. Hard to say if that was what happened, but more research should probably be done to check that statement.72.214.201.190 (talk) 20:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

This most likely refers to Kit Carson Jr, the stage name of a man born Jim Spleen. I writing a book about Texas Jack Omohundro, and this information will be included: In "one of his later letters to Buckskin Sam, Cody mentions that Kit Carson Jr. was arrested in Chicago for hitting his wife with intent to kill. Cody notes that, “I should have expected as much.” A note on a portrait of Carson Jr. in the collection of James Earl Taylor, who used the portrait to illustrate the dime novel Kit Carson Jr., the Crack Shot of the West states that Kit Carson Junior’s real name was Jim Spleen, and that he had posed as the son of the famous scout Kit Carson to try and get into West Point. According to Taylor, General Sherman had confided in him that Spleen was discovered to be an imposter when he failed to pass the entrance examinations for either grammar or mathematics." I have attached to this page an advertisement with another quote attributed to Kit Carson Jr., so it is likely he is the source of the first as well. I will attempt to correct in the future when I can.KidCharlem (talk) 22:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Photo needs improvement

Hello, I just wanted to open this discussion to say that the page image needs an upgrade. I feel it would be much better and more professional if the image of the Native American holding the repeater was replaced with simply a high quality image of the repeater itself. Thoughts? Aliy Dawut (talk) 19:34, 30 April 2024 (UTC)