This is the first volume of the most famous books ever written in Europe - the Winnetou trilogy. Best-selling since 1893. During his first journey into the Wild West, a young greenhorn--Karl May, the adventurer--meets a young Apache, called Winnetou, while performing his job as a railroad surveyor in the Wild West. The first encounter is not at all amicable and during a violent Indian attack, the young German is near-fatally wounded. He is taken to the Apache pueblo to be nursed back to health, destined to die by torture at the stake…