Author Art Greenhaw is a fifth-generation Mesquite resident who coauthored the definitive Mesquite history book, A Stake in the Prairie. He is a Grammy Award-winning and eight-time Grammy Award-nominated producer-arranger-musician. He was schooled at Black Elementary, Agnew Junior High, and Mesquite High School, where he graduated with highest honors. His family's Mesquite mercantile business was the recipient of Baylor University's Family Business of the Year Award. He has seen both the best of Mesquite times (as chronicled by this book's photographs) and the worst of Mesquite times and is optimistic that his home town can once again become a shining city on the hill that personifies the dreams of truth, rugged individualism, old values, and the traditional American Way.