Today I was watching the movie Shane with my aunt. It’s a movie from the 1950s depicting western life after the civil war in the 1800s. I’m generally not an old movie buff, but once and a while, there will be one that gets me thinking, and I start typing away.

American Westerns have appealed to people all over the world. I know this because I am very well-traveled, and I can’t tell you how many people had approached me when I told them I was American and said, “I love America, John Wayne. I love John Wayne.” Shane does not have John Wayne in it, but it is an American Classic about an American Frontiersman that’s fighting the odds against the bad guys. The scenery is Majestic and unyielding, and the homestead is small and dwarfed in its shadow. It looks scary and forbidding. So I have to ask, what is so appealing about this scenario to the entire world?

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