Author Ryan Barnhart, an English teacher at Liberty Christian School, partnered with historian Ryan Estes, a Texas history teacher at McKinney's Evans Middle School, to compile this impressive photographic history of McKinney's past. Using images from the Chestnut Square Organization's archives, the book also features photographs from private collections, including those of Ridgell McKinney, the great-great grandson of Collin McKinney. A portion of the authors' royalties benefit the Chestnut Square Organization.