His name is Johnny Boia and he is a very wicked gunslinger dressed in black. Or almost…Actually it is Bat Batterton's new, improbable disguise. His present client is the archaeologist, George Mac Leod, who is going to see his friends Jim and Margie Coleman, owners of a ranch in Stone-Hill, Vermont. Near their farm rises a dolmen, an ancient Celtic building, obvious proof that the Celts landed in America before Columbus…
With 410 pages this is now longest Zagor story surpassing La radura delle voci (404 pages).
Chico again forms a partnership with Trampy: the two organize a lonely-hearts agency (with Chico dressed as Cupid!), which, as usual, goes bankrupt. But there is little to joke about: Mayor Raskin, in order to free Cynthia Bradmayer, a white girl kidnapped by the Sauk Indians, stirs up the soldiers against the Native Americans. And an Indian war breaks out…
