A Face in the Falls

D.J. Jackson has spent his life looking for something worth finding. He may finally have found something that should have remained lost.

Jackson calls himself a lone cowpoke, although the truth is considerably less romantic. He has never done an honest days labor, has never tended cattle and has spent most of his life taking care of no one particularly well—not even himself.

But this time Jackson believes fortune is finally on his side.

With his faithful mare Jenny as his only companion, he crosses Colorados San Luis Valley toward the snowcapped Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Gold fever has drawn men into the country, but Jackson is searching for something different. A mysterious quartz medallion and a bargain with Chief Ouray have brought him to the foot of a waterfall with the promise of a treasure worth more than all the gold and diamonds in the world.

The chief gives him one instruction:

At sunrise, look.

When morning finally breaks across the mountains, Jackson sees a face within the falls...