Use the documented chronology; present every exact name-origin explanation as contested.
Veach uses newspapers and travel accounts to establish a chronology of name adoption rather than a settled origin story.
The earliest known Kentucky newspaper advertisement using “bourbon whiskey” dates to 1821, yet an 1824–1825 account still used the generic “whiskey”; by 1861 “Old Bourbon” was recognizable as a style. Bourbon County and Bourbon Street explanations both have evidentiary problems.
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Chapter Two — The Origin of Bourbon Whiskey
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The earliest known Kentucky newspaper advertisement using “bourbon whiskey” dates to 1821, yet an 1824–1825 account still used the generic “whiskey”; by 1861 “Old Bourbon” was recognizable as a style. Bourbon County and Bourbon Street explanations both have evidentiary problems.
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Source section: Chapter Two — The Origin of Bourbon Whiskey
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Veach uses newspapers and travel accounts to establish a chronology of name adoption rather than a settled origin story.
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Use the documented chronology; present every exact name-origin explanation as contested.
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