Sutherland Springs, Texas, Volume 2: Saratoga on the Cibolo (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781574416732)

Winner of the San Antonio Conservation Society Award

In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate developers, initially more interested in oil, brought Sutherland Springs to its peak as a resort in the early twentieth century, but failed to transform the farming settlement into a resort town. The decline in water tables during the late twentieth century reduced the mineral water flows, and the town faded. Sutherland Springs's history thus provides great insights into the importance of water in shaping settlement.

Beyond the story of resort spa aspirations lies a history of the community and its people itself.
McCaslin provides a complete history of Sutherland Springs from early settlement through Civil War and into the twentieth century, its agricultural and oil-drilling exploits alongside its mineral water appeal, as well as a complete community history of the various settlers and owners of the springs/hotel.

Author: Richard B. McCaslin
ISBN-10: 1574416731
ISBN-13: 9781574416732
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d