La storia di Betty Wilding

Who are the men who came from Ireland to Darkwood? And why are they looking for a woman called Betty, who they know was once married to a backwoods hunter named Mike Wilding? Zagor's return to the banks of the Clear Water, where many years before the Abenaki Indians exterminated his family, coincides with an encounter that reconnects the Spirit with the Hatchet with his Irish roots, already made evident by the name he was given: Patrick. Betty Wilding is in fact his mother, but the mystery surrounding her past seems to have tragic consequences even in the present, when a ferocious Indian chief and a trio of renegades burst onto the scene to prevent our hero from getting to the bottom of it...