I love this book! I have spent the past 5 years researching the families of the historic Church of the Annunciation in Houston. One of the descendants mentioned this book and I rushed to Amazon to buy it. It is full of references to my church families, and has so many descriptions of life in Houston's early days that it is a gold mine for genealogists.The references to the 1869 and 1873 maps of the city make it very familiar to me.It is not a book that you rush through in one quick reading. It requires more of a slow meandering read, but if you take your time, or as I did, and sit with Google maps and Google earth open, it is fascinating. So much of our history is still here to be seen, if you know where to look.