Camp Custer Motel Hardin, Montana (1986)
	Many parts of the rural West are changing, especially in the margins of the Great Plains. Hardin, Montana, is one such spot. Home to a major Indian reservation (belonging to the Crow People), the town once made its living from cattle, the railroad, and its proximity to Custer Battlefield National Monument. None of the three is thriving, but a coal-based economy that thrived in the late 1970s and early 1980s has also stalled. In 1986, a motel room cost $16, about half the going rate anyplace else.
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