Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020.
One-sided correspondence records bond-extension hopes, agents, debts, suspended activity and partnership breakdown before bankruptcy and salvage.
Karl Raitz, Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky,2020), chap. 17, “The Elkhorn Distillery’s Demise”.
Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020. chap. 17, “The Elkhorn Distillery’s Demise”.
chap. 17, “The Elkhorn Distillery’s Demise”
Raitz, Making Bourbon, chap. 17, “The Elkhorn Distillery’s Demise”.
chap. 17, “The Elkhorn Distillery’s Demise”
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Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020. chap. 17, “The Elkhorn Distillery’s Demise”.
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One-sided correspondence records bond-extension hopes, agents, debts, suspended activity and partnership breakdown before bankruptcy and salvage.
Raitz — Elkhorn closure and agency strain /
Making Bourbon — landscape, labor and industrial networks
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