European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Visitors in appropriate costumes inspect an old West exhibit at Tho leather museum in Offenbach West Germany. Exploring the by Randy Pruitt staff writer the mustachioed Man in the Black Cowboy  Hooks his thumbs behind his flashy Silver Belt buckle and bellies up to the bar. Over strains of i Lear in your Beer country Ballad he orders a draw. A Texas Honky Tonk nein Pard Ner. The Beer is German. So is the language except for the practice Soull Mest twang of the German hand. Found up parked outside Are not pickup trucks but rather gleaming merc Edesess and Bow s and other stylish conveyances thai would not be at Home on the Range. And the grub a bowl of bean soup tastes too he Smai King Good to have come Oft a Chuc k Wagon. It s the grand opening of mythos com buy cow boy myth which runs through april 30 at the 1 Ealther museum at Offenbach West Germany germans regard the Cowboy As a uniquely Mem an i ," says the museum s direct Len renal Wente Lukas who came up Wilh the idea for the presentation. Germans also seem to have a special fascination with the Cowboy s rugged fiercely Independent image which for years has blazed a Trail across their land. Numerous Western clubs have sprung up says continued on i Ige b january 11, 1990 strip