Download or read book A Giant in Texas written by Stanley H. Scott and published by Quanah, Tex. : Nortex Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The spirited competition of Fort Worth and Dallas blossomed in many areas, beginning in the late 1900's with the fight for the railroads and climaxing in the jet age with the question of public air transportation. The authors trace the two city "flight plan" from the 1911 arrival of a journeyman pilot, Roland Garros, to Fort Worth to the establishment of Love Field in 1917 in Dallas to train pilots for the fledgling Army Air Corps, down to the arrival of today's jet airliners." -- front flap of dust jacket.