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
Zagor, Fishleg and company, under the engagement of Lady Emma Fraser, set out in search of her husband and Rochas, who are lost in the Arctic expanses.
Tex is attacked in the desert, loses his horse and is forced to walk. He reaches the house of a young widow and decides to help her. Until then, the situation in the city is boiling because the relations between the two ranches have deteriorated. Who will