Superior firepower kept the Indians at bay for the first hour of the fight at Little Bighorn. Wolf Tooth and his warriors stayed way back in the tall grass, away from the long range of the soldier’s Springfields. (The .45-70 caliber trapdoor carbines can accurately fire 300 yards beyond a Winchester.) As more and more warriors spilled onto the battlefield from the Reno sector, however, the Custer skirmishers were overwhelmed by t
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