Red dirt road north of Acme, Montana (1985)
	Southern Montana, once primarily Indian land, has become something of an energy frontier. This is country of such paltry economic value that it was assigned, in vast quantitites, to the Crow and other nomadic Native American peoples. Ironically, when coal and, to some extent, natural gas, was discovered here, energy companies were quick to intrude. It remains extremely rural, with few other competing uses.
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