Carson, Gerald. The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink. Foreword by Mike Veach. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Originally published 1963.
The 1870s Whiskey Ring used falsified production and tax records, bribed officials, and political protection to divert excise revenue on a large scale.
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 119–146 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 119–146 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
PDF sheet 146
PDF sheet 119
Carson, Social History of Bourbon, PDF sheets 119–146.
Chapter 11 — The Great Whiskey Steal
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