Black Deer fraudulently wants to become the chief of the Salishes so that he can trade dubious goods with the whites with impunity, but the Axe Ghost manages to throw him out of the village with all his supporters...
The Hidatsa tribe chooses a new chief between two rivals. According to an old tribal custom, rivals compete in a game with seven arrows, but one of them is wounded, so Zagor takes his place.
To help Bat and Bing Batterton in their investigation, Zagor and Chico board the ship Blue Queen, where a mysterious apparition appears. But, apart from the mysterious specter, the ship hides some other dark secrets...
On the way to the Darkwood, Zagor and Chiko pass through Texas. In a village in the middle of the desert, they meet Digging Bill, who is preparing to search for the gold bars of the Alvarez mine, which is located in the Wichita hills, in Comanche territor
It was when young Pat Wilding had not yet become a Zagor... He was saved from certain death by trapper Kirk Wheeler. Many years later, the Axe Ghost meets his old friend, and sees that he has built a small fort on the border of Indian territory...