Travel all the way to Salzburg to visit a Canadian Alpine Resort?

Yes it's true and not just a stereotype, (most) Germans do love Western culture and in particular anything about Native people. You can thank Karl May for that :-) Some background about the bestselling German author of all times and his influence on the German fascination with the "Wild West" can be found here

I checked out the link above and find those rustic huts actually quite tastefully done. So why not.

This is different, but it sort of makes sense to me when I think about how the Old West can be romanticized in some parts of Europe…maybe this is sort of similar…not Old West necessarily. I remember seeing a sign along the road just east of Paris about the Davy Crockett ranch…I actually think it may have been part of Disney…thought it amusing. When visiting Rothenburg odT on one trip, we noticed a “Native American” performer in the main square in full regalia. He looked ridiculous and not authentic, of course, and I couldn’t really figure out if he was performing for the Americans, the Japanese, or someone else. I remember reading about a German fascination with the Old West way back in German class in school…not sure if that was a stereotype, but I have seen lots of German tourists in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado over the years.

I've known lots of German people who are indeed into "Westernhobby". They enjoy dressing up in Native American costume, camping out, etc., kind of like some Americans have their Octoberfests in the US, I guess.

This was one of the first (stereotypical?) things I learned about Germans, from my German friend. They love the American West. On my most recent visit, we watched some videos on YouTube of a German country-western band from the '70s or '80s. (I thought it was hilarious.) My friend told me about an Old West "village" in Germany (I forgot where) complete with at least one performer who dresses up like a Native American and performs for the crowd. That would be unthinkable in the U.S. and we had an interesting conversation about political correctness in the U.S. and Germany. I think it was the German film director Wim Wenders who was fascinated by the American West. He said it was so present and immediate, compared to German history which stretches back into the distant past and which he couldn't relate to.