The Sacred Valley: A Rusty Sabin Story (Center Point Western)

Born to white parents, Rusty Sabin was taken prisoner and raised by the Cheyennes, who know him now as Red Hawk, an admired leader and great warrior. When Sabin extracts two full bags of gold from along the creek of the Sacred Valley, a place that is holy to the Cheyennes, his intention is to spend half of it on improving the lot of the Cheyennes. The other half is for Maisry Lester, the girl he hopes to marry.

Rusty and Standing Bull, a Cheyenne friend, are guests at the Lester cabin when Charlie Galway, a local frontiersman, tries to steal the sack of gold meant for Maisry, and is interrupted by her father. Galway kills Lester with Standing Bull's tomahawk, and then accuses him of the crime, setting the stage for a bloody confrontation between the settlers and the Indians.