James D. Best

Everybody drives a car. Many fantasize they can race at the NASCAR level, but few daily commuters would actually venture beyond their daydre...

Here's your starter set. Good Luck! Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Your book is in here.  Some assembly requi...

Open Range The movie Open Range started me thinking about plot pacing. Westerns films are supposed to be action/adventure, but Open Ran...

In 2008, USA Today ran an article titled "The good, the bad, and the anti-hero." The lead sentence claimed that, “Heroes are old ...

Westerns were hugely popular for over a hundred years and then the genre suddenly fell into disfavor. Not only were Westerns popular in the ...

I asked myself this question as I tried to figure out why the Western genre had been relegated to a couple of obscure shelves in most bookst...