Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That’s where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifler whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That’s where the West begins

It’s been almost a century since cowboy poet and newspaperman Arthur Chapman published his famous poem, “Out Where the West Begins,” first scribbled down in 1910. But for the past 50 years “the West” has been slowly turning its collective back on its entrepreneurial roots, rejecting the idea of risk and reward, embracing big government solutions to every problem, trusting less and less in its entrepreneurs and more and more in bureaucrats.