The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the official repository for records of the U.S. General Land Office, a predecessor of the Bureau of Land Management, that document the transfer of public lands from the United States to private ownership.1 The case files generated by over 10 million such individual land transactions, known as land entries, and the tract books and various name indexes used to access them are located in the National Archives Building, Washington, DC

Dr. Leonard Sax's outstanding seminal book, Boys Adrift, identifies several key factors in the creation and maintenance of neotenous men, sometimes called "slackers," as in the movie Failure to Launch. It also has very useful, well thought out ideas on how to address this issue, and how to guide boys into being responsible adults, who contribute to society. This response to Boys Adrift expands on some of those ideas, and responds to some areas that weren't covered as thoroughly as they could have been. It adds some secrets about how boys, and men, think, which are not found in print...