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Author: hszmv1

Jun 9th 2017 at 10:08:30 AM

* I forget the artist, but I recall the song "Should have been a Cowboy" which includes the following line:
--> Go West Young Man Like you were Told
--> California's full of Whiskey, Women, and Gold

When I saw this title my mind immediately jumped to those lyrics and I'd strongly advocate for that as the page quote.

I will also back up by pointing out that "West" has historically been a direction of adventures in the unknown.  Consider the classic Chinese story JourneyToTheWest and the significance of Chinese culture to many East Asian literature.    The Western World is much more entrenched in this as well, owing to various reasons.  The first would likely be the Birth of Jesus, specifically the Adoration of The Magi, who all traveled west to pay visit to the child.  After that, the discovery of the New World built an western age of discovery, which was followed by the American Westward expansion which is such an triumphant example of this trope that they built an entire Genre of fiction around the myth of the "Wild West".  Even today, the Western Americas are largely undeveloped, remote, and great hiding spots for all sorts of oddities, especially compared to the Eastern Seaboard, which contains two very large Metropolitan areas.  At the sake of making an IncreadiblyLamePun, this is quite the circular trope.  For example, while East Asia is still known to the Americas as "The East" most people living in the Americas will tend to picture the trip as a movement to the West as the flight path will typically go from east to west.