Conclusion

Abstract

One can often see cowboys, walking past the sheriff’s office in Pullman City, visited by more than a million people every year. But this Pullman City is located northeast of Munich, close to the Bavarian town of Eging am See. Those cowboys will, too, eagerly enter the Black Bison Saloon, but instead of saying “I’ll have a beer,” they will say “Ein bier, bitte”. According to The New York Times, Pullman City “is a compendium of mythic iconography engrained in the global psyche by well over a century of hugely popular adventure stories, movies, television shows and travelling Wild West extravaganzas.”¹ Moreover, it typifies the mythical German-Indian affinity, still ever so popular among Germans, perpetuated by Karl May novels and their cinematic interpretations.