Winnetou and Old Shatterhand set off from San Francisco in January of 1873, heading east, with stops along the way to visit old friends. Sidequel to Karl May's Wild West Oeuvre and 'The Rodriganda Romances'; Experimental work, and sequel to 'Clipper Run - Winnetou & Shatterhand in the South Sea'. Based on fictional characters created by Karl Friedrich May (1842-1912), set against 'real world' time slices from 1820 to 1873.