Karl May, who died 100 years ago, was an impostor, a liar and a thief -- and one of Germany's most widely read authors. He embellished his own biography with as much fantasy as the scenarios in his ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Caprock Chronicles" is a yearlong series of short articles and essays that examine the life, people and historical places of our region's past. Paul Carlson, professor emeritus of ...

Karl May of 19th century Germany grew up in an impoverished family of weavers. Apparently imagination was his greatest gift, and also his biggest curse. May eventually wrote novels so convincingly ...

A museum dedicated to the adventure novelist Karl May has been accused of disrespecting the wishes of the American native tribes that once inspired his stories by refusing to hand over a collection of ...

March 30 marks 100 years since the death of German writer Karl May, whose popular novels about an American West (and other exotic locales) he only visited much later in life entertained many in ...

The Karl May Museum in eastern Germany is hanging on to a Native American scalp in its collection, despite a Chippewa claim. A new report questions the story of the scalp's acquisition that its ...

Karl May, who died 100 years ago, was an impostor, a liar and a thief -- and one of Germany's most widely read authors. He embellished his own biography with as much fantasy as the scenarios in his ...