Cowdery 2014 — PDF sheets 124–140

Bibliography Entry

Cowdery, Charles K. Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey. Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014.

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469

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Ready

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Chicago Notes and Bibliography

Citation Summary

Comparative source criticism of American whiskey origin and continuity stories.

Claims

Historical whiskey labels became enforceable representations of product identityWhiskey brand continuity does not guarantee product continuity

Drafts

Excerpts

Cowdery tests brand stories against dated records and literal production history

Footnote Text

Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), PDF sheets 124–140.

Full Citation

Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), PDF sheets 124–140.

Literature Notes

American whiskey history, identity, and industry structure — Cowdery

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PDF sheet 140

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PDF sheet 124

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Short Citation

Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange, PDF sheets 124–140.

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Source Section

Comparative source criticism of American whiskey origin and continuity stories.

Verification Notes

September 29 fresh supplied-copy review: citation metadata and locator reconciled to the complete text and visual survey. PDF-sheet numbers are capture coordinates, not printed page numbers. Verified source fidelity does not establish historical truth.

Source and locator

Canonical source · PDF sheet 124 through PDF sheet 140

Full citation

Charles K. Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014), PDF sheets 124–140.

Short citation

Cowdery, Bourbon, Strange, PDF sheets 124–140.

Evidence and limit

Located evidence

Cowdery challenges first-invention and unchanged-recipe stories by comparing brand narratives with dated people, places and production accounts. These cases offer research leads, but his own confident conclusions require the same scrutiny: lack of evidence is not disproof, a merchant can commission a recipe, and a real ancestor can acquire an invented distilling biography.

Supports the project’s evidence-ladder method. Individual cases should still be checked against the records and specialist works Cowdery names.

Verification

September 29 fresh supplied-copy review: citation metadata and locator reconciled to the complete text and visual survey. PDF-sheet numbers are capture coordinates, not printed page numbers. Verified source fidelity does not establish historical truth.

Existing claim, literature-note and placement relations retained. Citation Status remains Ready.