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On Labor Day he flew at Jackson, California, then on September 7th and 8th, at Newman. At Newman he landed on the main downtown street in front of the hotel, then flew to Modesto, 28 miles south, for an exhibition. He continued flying in that area in September, and on October 5th and 6th was at Vallejo. His twin tractor was used in exhibitions that fall, then sold to Diddier Masson.

The exhibition game seemed to be in a slump so that winter Bryant took on the job of building a headless Curtiss-type biplane, with a Curtiss 8-cylinder engine, for Fred Bennett. 

During the summer of 1913 Bennett induced Bryant to fly this machine at Golden Potlatch Celebration at Portland, Oregon. Bryant's brother John, and his wife Alys were also there. At Portland Bryant also made some night flights with his machine while illuminated by fireworks. There is evidence that Bryant bought the Bennett plane shortly after this event, and that fall joined the other San Francisco area flyers putting on Sunday air matinees at the Panama Pacific Exposition grounds. 

During 1914-1915 Bryant contunued to fly exhibitions, when contracts were available, through Wyoming, Idaho, Kansas and Washington, using the Bennett-Curtiss biplane. During 1915 he also conducted flight tests of a flying boat built by Fred Parker, using a union aviation engine then under development at Oakland, California. In August of that year he became a full time instructor for the Christofferson Aviation School at San Francisco. 

In January, 1916, the school was moved to Oakland, where a new field was established with hangars and shop facilities. On the Fourth of July he made exhibition flights at Maricopa, California. Bryant continued as instructor for the Christofferson brothers until the tragic death of Silas Chirstofferson in October, 1916, following which the company was dissolved. At that time Bryant moved the school to Redwood City, California, where he owned and operated the business from late 1916 to 1921. There he taught scores of students who

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in the paragraph 4, there is a typo in the original: contunued