Useful because it separates recoverable production history from retrospective origin stories and makes settler expansion part of the context rather than a neutral backdrop.
Risen situates early Kentucky distilling within white settlement, abundant corn, farm survival, barter, and river transport. He rejects a single-inventor origin and notes that named founders and family recipes were often elevated later when brands needed historical legitimacy.
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Part One — The History
Fresh full supplied-ebook reading and image audit September29. PDF sheets 33–35. PDF33–35 rejects a single inventor. PDF34 prints eighteenth-century French arrival but says nearly a century before1774, an internal chronology error. Treat settlement/origin details as secondary historical leads.
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September 29 fresh reading audit
Risen situates early Kentucky distilling within white settlement, abundant corn, farm survival, barter, and river transport. He rejects a single-inventor origin and notes that named founders and family recipes were often elevated later when brands needed historical legitimacy.
Locator: PDF sheets 33–35. These are supplied ebook PDF sheet numbers, not hardcover pagination.
PDF33–35 rejects a single inventor. PDF34 prints eighteenth-century French arrival but says nearly a century before1774, an internal chronology error. Treat settlement/origin details as secondary historical leads.
