Volume One presents the experiences of American doughboys in and near the Marne Salient in 1918, drawing extensively upon primary sources and personal testimonies, and illustrated with black-and-white drawings and photographs on virtually every page.

Illustrated with occasional historic photographs ranging from the Tarrant County Courthouse under construction in 1895, to the Fort Worth Medical College opening in 1893, to Meacham Field in 1937, and the Light Crust Doughboys Western swing band in the 1940s, Fort Worth is a descriptive history of an amazing Texas community and its people from it's days as a military outpost on the banks of the Trinity, to it evolution into the Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex.

They soon realized that instead of macaroni and cheese and doughboys, they would be eating lasagna and French bread and apple pie a la mode, and their sleeping bags would not be a shield for mosquitoes but an extra blanket for the air conditioning.