“Just a few minutes.”

—  Hollow Horn Bear

Response to Walter Mason Camp when asked how long the fighting took on Custer Hill, in [Fox, Richard A., Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined, February 16, 2015, University of Oklahoma Press, 9780806129983, 195, https://books.google.com/books?id=5tazBgAAQBAJ, 1 March 2018]

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