[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

I can hardly wait for the German thought police -- a cadre trained under the American university Marxists -- to go after Karl May, for all those novels about "Indians."

"When American GIs poured into Germany in 1945, they were astonished to discover that German children, after 12 years of Nazi rule, could be found decked-out in buckskins and feathers and playing 'Indians'. Every spring in Radebeul, a quiet Dresden suburb, tens of thousands of grown-ups do the same. The explanation for both these phenomena is Karl May (1842-1912), a Saxon weaver's son, jailbird, self-described linguist—and the man who single-handedly invented the wild west for generations of Europeans. Long before the Lone Ranger, May was giving unruly cowboys what-for, befriending Winnetou, a great Apache warrior, and generally bringing peace and order to the frontier. "

Ich bin ein Cowboy The Economist, 24 May 2001

Let's go burn some books.... < s a r c >

[Verginius Rufus]

Karl May visited the USA but apparently never went west of St. Louis.