Saratoga Reader: Writing About An American Village, 1749-1900

The history of the village of Saratoga Springs and its earliest residents and visitors are brought vividly to life through this primary collection of diaries and correspondence. In this book, 82 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europeans and Americans speak through their writings. Their impressions of life in Saratoga Springs provide the richest-known contemporary record of any American village. Sometimes full of humor, sometimes critical, and sometimes taking the waters for poor health, these writers are our guides through a century and a half of community history.