Buck Greyson

Buck Greyson is an active inhabitant of The Five Territories.

Early Life
Buck was born in January, 1872 in South Dakota. He grew up on a ranch owned by his father and spent the majority of his youth performing manual labour and working with horses. Buck had little in the way of formal education. Barely more than 11,000 people occupied South Dakota around the time of Buck's birth, so his upbringing was much more rough and pioneer than most people realize.

As part of the Army's clearances of Native camps during the 1880s and 1890s, an Apache tribe in South Dakota were massacred. It is likely this was a group of northern Apache who had aligned themselves with Red Cloud of the local Lakota peoples, rather than the Apache who travelled south towards Mexico during the same period.

A young brave of this Apache tribe came to work on the ranch owned by Buck's father; the man realized he could pay the native man almost nothing in return for keeping his survival a secret from the Army. In English, the brave's name translated to 'Burning Sun'. To people who Buck trusts (and who get close enough to him), Burning Sun became his lover and  world mate  - a tribal term meaning that their souls are aligned for as long as the earth survives. Buck's homosexuality and connection to Native Americans have both become defining points in his personality.

Sometime in 1891 or 1892, Buck 's father discovered the forbidden relationship between his son and the Apache brave. His father cut his face open upon confronting him. Later that day, Buck returned to find Burning Sun hanged in a barn, with clear signs of torture and a slow death. Buck ran to a sheriff's home, the sheriff looking upon Burning Sun's body he remarked Suicide or justice, I don't care which. As the sheriff left, other farmhands set the barn on fire, most likely to cover up evidence of the murder. Buck tried and failed to recover Burning Sun's body, and in a defining moment of rage, picked up a burning spar of wood and threw it into his father' s bedroom window in the main ranch house.

Later Life
Following this, He has a period of about 7 years of which he has no memory of, The exact timeframe is unknown. One day, living wild and in his terms 'barely human', Buck discovered a man who had been shot and robbed in a forest. The man had a wedding ring on, and the thieves had attempted to sever his finger to remove it, and failed. Buck thought "If I didn't do something, there'd be someone in the world just as alone as I am", and that something in his head snapped. He patched the man up and took him to a town, and assisted the local doctor in saving the man's life. This was the beginning of Buck's origin as a doctor.