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...
Morwak is a young Delaware who, according to an old custom, must prove himself capable of becoming a warrior by seeking out his protector, in this case a wolf, and kill him and save his skin. But in the forest there is something even worse than the wolf i
Together with Chico and Trampi, Zagor helps Pickens free his wife, and eventually clashes with the kidnappers, where he meets the titular Mr. Smith, a strange man who is in fact the real reason for all this complication.