Word: cowboying
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...drive from home. Not so in the wide-open spaces of the Southwest, where the nearest neighbor may be a rancher who lives 25 miles away and a pastor may be farther still. For many rural families, the annual campfire meeting-an institution designed to bring God to the cowboy-may be their only contact with organized religion...
...Shatterhand, lean and heroic, is a German version of a U.S. cowboy who has made the Old West familiar country to every German child since Karl May invented him a century ago. In a long and fanciful lifetime (1842-1912), May was more than a Zane Grey to Germany, and more a popular moralist than a popular novelist. May became an authority on the wild West without straying from Dresden (where he kept his Villa Shatterhand littered with frontier souvenirs), and May's West was even nobler than the Lone Ranger's. Old Shatterhand (a German immigrant cowboy...
Innocent Grandeur. Last week's outdoor epic was Under the Vultures, an old May tale chosen for this year's Karl May Festival. In its ten years, the festival has drawn 800,000 visitors. The cowboy and Indian fans from all over Germany come for the festival, pitch tepees, fire blank pistols, call each other "Callamitty Jane" and, though few Germans can pronounce it, "Billy the Kid." And during the season, Bad Segeberg's best hotel offers "Dakota Weshungle mil Palushka Weshungle" (spiced buffalo meat with brown beans...
Simple Morality. Such ardor is not limited to Germany. Though Frenchmen insist that Germans are Europe's real cowboy fanatiques, the French still log many hours watching The Lone Ranger on television, and they are used to seeing their children hurry home from school to catch L'Aigle Noir (Black Eagle) Thursday afternoons. For serious children, French television is offering a new series: Véritable Histoire du Far West...
After that the movie becomes a manhunt, as the cowboy fugitive rides, tugs, curses and coaxes his horse Whisky up and up through cruel ridge country toward the hoped-for haven of an immense stand of forest. The machines close in again, but a rifle can still foil a helicopter and a rifle butt can stun a stupid, pursuing jail guard...