After a long service, it's time for Major Wingate to retire. But the major is soon forced to send a telegram to Tex: the Indian Nantay has been murdered, and the crime is being covered up by a local powerful man and a drunken sheriff. Tex and Carson come
In search of Nat Murdo and Anya, Zagor, Chico and Akutan find themselves in Alaska in the middle of a small war between Russian colonists and the native Tlingit tribe.
A message arrives in the Navajo village that a young man from their tribe, Sa-Hua, has ended up in prison in the town of Sanders. Tex and the team set out to see what happened and get the young Indian out, not realizing that they will be greeted by a more