Secondary agreement of Veach’s warning that the Craig inventor story is a late attribution rather than a contemporary record. Source independence is not established by agreement alone.
Mitenbuler traces the familiar Elijah Craig attribution to Richard Collins’s 1874 history and evaluates its evidentiary basis.
The Craig myth first appeared in 1874, when the historian Richard Collins claimed that Craig made the “first” bourbon. […] Collins, of course, provided no evidence that Craig’s whiskey was different from any of the other whiskies that had already begun flowing out of Kentucky at that time.
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Chapter Three — Dark and Bloody Ground
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Evidence
The Craig myth first appeared in 1874, when the historian Richard Collins claimed that Craig made the “first” bourbon. […] Collins, of course, provided no evidence that Craig’s whiskey was different from any of the other whiskies that had already begun flowing out of Kentucky at that time.
Locator
Locator type: Page
Start: 48
End: 48
Source section: Chapter Three — Dark and Bloody Ground
Context
Mitenbuler traces the familiar Elijah Craig attribution to Richard Collins’s 1874 history and evaluates its evidentiary basis.
Annotation
Secondary agreement of Veach’s warning that the Craig inventor story is a late attribution rather than a contemporary record. Source independence is not established by agreement alone.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheet 48. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.