What do you think of Karl May stories set in the American Old West (Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, etc.)?

By Lake_Frog

I’d never heard of this person before this post. Honestly, I feel like most Americans probably wouldn’t know a German author who’s been dead for more than a hundred years. Like, my city’s public library system is supposed to be one of the biggest in the country, and it only has one copy each of The Secret Brotherhood and The Caravan of Death, plus two copies of Winnetou. (Maybe he’s more of a European thing—there are at least a few copies of his books in Polish, German, and Croatian.)