For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly Texas Commerce Bank, one of the city's largest.

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: A Century of Growth by a Bank and Its Region	p. 3
The Rise of Houston and Its Banks, 1886-1914	p. 12
Creating a New Banking Order, 1905-14	p. 40
Jazz Banking in Boomtown, 1914-29	p. 64
Avoiding Disaster, 1929-33	p. 90
King Cotton and Its Banks Dethroned, 1929-45	p. 109
Creating Stability, 1933-45	p. 132
Responding to a World of Opportunities, 1945-56	p. 146
Merging for Size and Management Succession	p. 177
Financing a Maturing Region, 1956-71	p. 210
Industrial Management Comes to Texas Commerce	p. 239
From Bank to Bancshares, 1971-85	p. 262
Banking Amid Boom and Bust	p. 303
Conclusion: Banking and Regional Development	p. 336
Appendices
Bank Directors	p. 347
Bank Executive Officers: Biographical Sketches	p. 371
Page One, Commerce National Bank Directors' Minutes	p. 387
Notes	p. 389
Bibliography	p. 423
Index	p. 435
Historical Highlights
Houston Banks and the Financing of the Ship Channel, 1911	p. 23
William Bartlett Chew	p. 28
James Everett McAshan	p. 33
Jonas Shearn Rice and William Marsh Rice, Jr.	p. 51
William Thomas Carter	p. 54
Jesse Holman Jones	p. 75
The Gulf Building	p. 80
James Addison Baker	p. 82
Roy Montgomery Farrar	p. 99
Gainer B. Jones and Memories of the Bank Salvage Effort	p. 105
Albert Dee Simpson	p. 128
E. O. Buck and the Emergence of Modern Oil Lending	p. 149
John E. Whitmore and the Formative Years of Real Estate Lending at NBC	p. 161
A Journey to the East	p. 170
An Epidemic of Management Succession Problems	p. 179
Robert Pace Doherty	p. 182
Tunneling Under the Unit Banking Law	p. 194
The ABCs of Oil Production Payments	p. 213
Producing Dollars from Concrete	p. 227
The Brief Reign of Chairman Mecom	p. 247
All in the Family	p. 250
Ben Love and the Coming of Industrial Management	p. 255
Oil Prices	p. 307
The Texas Commerce Tower	p. 325
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