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Here's a review I found: It is pretty difficult to find Karol May's books, although he was fairly famous at a certain stage. If you get a chance, buy them, if only to save them for future days. His writings that take place in the American 'wild west' are not novels nore historical chronics, but best summarized as historical novels. Voluminous books that may seem discouraging for those who aren't used to read, they remain extremely easy to read since chapters are somewhat independant from one another, and more like short stories oftentimes. One can't have read one of these books without having well understood what the United States were at the end of the XIXth century, where they come from, and the effects that progressively forged the particular contemporary American mindset (since the end of WWI anyway). Very few countries were (and still are I think) as diversified in terms of religion, ethnicity, etc., thus the importance in my opinion of a good understanding of history as cohisive factor. This book or any other would do it, but I would strongly recommend 'Old Shatterhand & Winnetou' (direct translation from the title in French but it should be approaching), Winnetou featured above is the book just before in the series; but once again they're independant. Briefly, The narrator (nicknamed Old Shatterhand in the closed world of the wild west of the time), is a well educated European gentleman, who comes temporarily as a trapper and addapts rather well to this new modus vivendi, while keeping his gentlemanlike manners, which'll allow him to describe both the frontier and the city life in the US of this period. Extremely rich and vivid. Hopefully these lines will have given the desire to read this book and others by K. May, I am certain that one unvariably comes out changed after such a reading. Feel free to email me questions I may be able to help you with.