Case closed? Maybe not... The faded beauty Kate, a sponge in a skirt who is a habituée of the Parisian Saloon in Elk City, becomes an intimate friend of ranger Burt Keller and confides to Tex that her beloved who died in mysterious circumstances during an incognito investigation wasnt only tracking the thefts of silver committed against the Central Mining company, but was also on the trail of the hucksters who peddled the gut-racking hooch, poisoners of Indians! So Tex resorts to a stratagem thought up with the aid of the Native American Kendo: he gets himself hired as a gunslinger by the Nelson family, a sordid family of bootleggers.