The Maysville chapter describes a river port and trade routes, then recounts the Bourbon County naming story while explicitly noting historians' objections. Commercial importance does not settle the origin of the word bourbon.
Cameron M. Ludwick and Blair Thomas Hess, The State of Bourbon: Exploring the Spirit of Kentucky (Indiana University Press, 2018), physical PDF 115–116.
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Ludwick and Hess, State of Bourbon, PDF 115–116.
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The Maysville chapter describes a river port and trade routes, then recounts the Bourbon County naming story while explicitly noting historians' objections. Commercial importance does not settle the origin of the word bourbon.