The American soldier and teacher, who grew up in the plains of Kansas and made his way to the hills of Cavite, lived a rich and fascinating life. After the Philippine-American war, he settled in the country, married a Filipina, became a writer, and bought many parcels of fertile land along the Tagaytay Ridge, some of which still bear his name today.
He was born in 1876, 13,000 kilometers from the Philippine highlands where he would die, in the town of Sabetha, Kansas. Hammond Hall Buck was raised in a farmer's cabin of retrieved timber, dried mud and straw, amidst a rolling ...
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