Michael Morey is a writer and independent historian. He lives in Sonoma County, California.

With dedicated sleuthing, informed speculation, and gifted storytelling style, Morey sheds new light on David Fagen, an African American insurgent against U.S. colonialism, who has long remained as elusive to historians as he was to the American soldiers that chased him through Philippine forests over a century ago."" - Paul Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines""A model for how to take a mythic figure, about whom very little documentation exists, and successfully transform him into a living, breathing man whose life is a window to understanding the meaning of race, war, and masculinity in American society."" - Jennifer D. Keene, author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: The Young Man from Tampa1 The Young Man from Tampa2 Santiago3 The Far Side of the World4 Westward5 The Waiting Game6 Permissions to Hate7 Benevolent Assimilation8 Snowbound9 “Fighting Fred” Funston10 Slander11 Stalemate12 Sequoia13 The White Man’s Burden14 Aguinaldo Adrift15 Over the HillPart Two: Renegade16 Another Kind of War17 Billet Doux18 The Death of Captain Godfrey19 “The Afro-American Traitor Called David”20 Urbano Lacuna21 Mount Corona22 Alstaetter23 Funston’s Great Roundup24 Sergeant Washington and Captain Fagen25 Fall Offensive26 Old Scores27 “General Fagan”28 “Negritos Soldados”29 “The Courage of His Convictions”30 Alstaetter Revisited31 A Christmas Souvenir32 The Revolution Falters33 The Road to Palanan34 SurrenderPart Three: Ladrone35 Ladrone36 The Renegade Comes to Town37 A People’s War38 “The Old Arch-Renegade Fagan”AfterwordA Note on SourcesNotesIndex

Michael Morey is a writer and independent historian. He lives in Sonoma County, California.

With dedicated sleuthing, informed speculation, and gifted storytelling style, Morey sheds new light on David Fagen, an African American insurgent against U.S. colonialism, who has long remained as elusive to historians as he was to the American soldiers that chased him through Philippine forests over a century ago."" - Paul Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines""A model for how to take a mythic figure, about whom very little documentation exists, and successfully transform him into a living, breathing man whose life is a window to understanding the meaning of race, war, and masculinity in American society."" - Jennifer D. Keene, author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: The Young Man from Tampa1 The Young Man from Tampa2 Santiago3 The Far Side of the World4 Westward5 The Waiting Game6 Permissions to Hate7 Benevolent Assimilation8 Snowbound9 “Fighting Fred” Funston10 Slander11 Stalemate12 Sequoia13 The White Man’s Burden14 Aguinaldo Adrift15 Over the HillPart Two: Renegade16 Another Kind of War17 Billet Doux18 The Death of Captain Godfrey19 “The Afro-American Traitor Called David”20 Urbano Lacuna21 Mount Corona22 Alstaetter23 Funston’s Great Roundup24 Sergeant Washington and Captain Fagen25 Fall Offensive26 Old Scores27 “General Fagan”28 “Negritos Soldados”29 “The Courage of His Convictions”30 Alstaetter Revisited31 A Christmas Souvenir32 The Revolution Falters33 The Road to Palanan34 SurrenderPart Three: Ladrone35 Ladrone36 The Renegade Comes to Town37 A People’s War38 “The Old Arch-Renegade Fagan”AfterwordA Note on SourcesNotesIndex

Michael Morey is a writer and independent historian. He lives in Sonoma County, California.

With dedicated sleuthing, informed speculation, and gifted storytelling style, Morey sheds new light on David Fagen, an African American insurgent against U.S. colonialism, who has long remained as elusive to historians as he was to the American soldiers that chased him through Philippine forests over a century ago."" - Paul Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines""A model for how to take a mythic figure, about whom very little documentation exists, and successfully transform him into a living, breathing man whose life is a window to understanding the meaning of race, war, and masculinity in American society."" - Jennifer D. Keene, author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: The Young Man from Tampa1 The Young Man from Tampa2 Santiago3 The Far Side of the World4 Westward5 The Waiting Game6 Permissions to Hate7 Benevolent Assimilation8 Snowbound9 “Fighting Fred” Funston10 Slander11 Stalemate12 Sequoia13 The White Man’s Burden14 Aguinaldo Adrift15 Over the HillPart Two: Renegade16 Another Kind of War17 Billet Doux18 The Death of Captain Godfrey19 “The Afro-American Traitor Called David”20 Urbano Lacuna21 Mount Corona22 Alstaetter23 Funston’s Great Roundup24 Sergeant Washington and Captain Fagen25 Fall Offensive26 Old Scores27 “General Fagan”28 “Negritos Soldados”29 “The Courage of His Convictions”30 Alstaetter Revisited31 A Christmas Souvenir32 The Revolution Falters33 The Road to Palanan34 SurrenderPart Three: Ladrone35 Ladrone36 The Renegade Comes to Town37 A People’s War38 “The Old Arch-Renegade Fagan”AfterwordA Note on SourcesNotesIndex