The Lost Diablo Curse — Art Isberg

Indian gold and the ancient curse that protects it is challenged by an unlikely band of three. Jim Spence, lead whip man for a far flung stage line befriends a wild Indian boy fleeing from his Kiowa tribesmen bent on taking his life and with him a golden secret only he alone can fulfill. The young, lovely school teacher, Cialia Grayson, becomes involved with them both in ways she could never imagine when Spence brings the boy, who's Indian name is Small Eagle, to her school to try and teach him English. Mocked by the white children she finally decides to teach him on her own, but in the process both adults are drawn into the maddening search for the fabled lost mine that Spanish invaders used Indian labor to find and work nearly a century earlier. And, slowly Cialia and Spence also begin to fall in love.