Pacult, F. Paul. Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World’s Most Awarded Distillery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
The site history begins with animal migration routes, mineral licks, water, and Indigenous use of the Kentucky River landscape long before a distillery existed.
F. Paul Pacult, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World’s Most Awarded Distillery (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021), PDF sheets 19–29.
F. Paul Pacult, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World’s Most Awarded Distillery (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021), PDF sheets 19–29.
PDF sheet 29
PDF sheet 19
Pacult, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon, PDF sheets 19–29.
Chapter 1 — The Kentucky River site
Fresh full-copy audit, 2026-09-29. PDF19–32: landscape narrative is not archaeological proof of distillation. Indigenous nations and periods must remain distinct; bison-crossing continuity does not establish company continuity.