Otis Leader
Sawyer, Sarah Elizabeth
Amid the growing tensions of WWI, Otis W. Leader--a thirty-five-year-old widower of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish descent--left behind three children, his job, and his home in Oklahoma to enlist in the Army. Assigned to the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, he was chosen to represent the "Ideal American Doughboy, " and lived up to that title, earning honors like the Croix de Guerre, two Silver Stars, a Congressiona...
