Homer Lea: American Soldier of Fortune

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Alfred E. Lea, circa 1880. (History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys, Colorado, facing 342) Hersa Lea, circa 1875. (Personal Papers, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Lea, Houston, Tex.) Homer Lea in infancy. (Charles O. Kates Personal Papers, Mr. Brian Kates, Pomona, N.Y.) Homer Lea, age twenty, as a high school senior. (Kates Papers) K’ang Yu-wei, circa 1898. (Philip W. Sergeant, The Great Empress Dowager of China [New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911], facing 176) Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, circa 1903. (Kates Papers) Lieutenant General Homer Lea, CERA, circa 1904. (Author’s collection) Homer Lea in Chinese attire, circa 1904. (Author’s collection) First Sergeant Ansel E. O’Banion, U.S. Army, circa 1902. (Courtesy of U.S. Cavalry Museum, Fort Riley, Kans.) Ansel O’Banion (white shirt) and Western Military Academy cadets training at Sunset Blvd. and Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, August 12, 1904. (Kates Papers) CERA cadets, Fourth Infantry Regiment, Portland, Oregon, circa 1905. (Kates Papers) Unidentified CERA officer, St. Louis, circa 1905. (Kates Papers) Unwanted publicity for Lea and the reformers, 1905. (Los Angeles Herald, June 25, 1905) General Richard A. Falkenberg and Captain Wong Kim, CIRA, 1904. (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 1905, 3) Ethel B. Powers, circa late 1890s. (Joshua B. Powers Personal Papers, Powers Family, South Royalton, Vt.) Dr. Yung Wing, circa 1910. (World’s Work, July 1910, 13105) Charles Beach Boothe, circa 1909. (Moody, “Makers of Los Angeles,” 322) Dr. Sun Yat-sen, 1912. (photograph by K. T. Thompson) Military honor guard with the Leas’ ashes followed by Joshua B. Powers and daughter, Mrs. Carolien P. Maynard, Taiwan, April 19, 1969. (Powers Papers) Homer Lea convalescing, Los Angeles, 1912. (Kates Papers) ...