[Illustration: Sculpture]
BY
GEORGE FUERMANN
_Houston: The Feast Years_ (1962)
_Reluctant Empire_ (1957)
_Houston: Land of the Big Rich_ (1951)
HOUSTON
The Feast Years
An Illustrated Essay
By
George Fuermann
With Woodcuts by Lowell Collins
Modern Photographs by Owen Johnson
Historic Photographs and Sketches by Various Hands
_The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous
city._
Euripides
_If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you
would know, and not be known, live in a city._
C. C. Colton
_Urbes constituit: hora dissolvit._
Seneca
1962
[Illustration: _Press of Premier_]