Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020.
Elkhorn's letters, accounts, surviving foundations and warehouse document ownership, labor, water, machinery and construction logistics.
Karl Raitz, Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky,2020), chap. 16, “Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery”.
Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020. chap. 16, “Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery”.
chap. 16, “Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery”
Raitz, Making Bourbon, chap. 16, “Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery”.
chap. 16, “Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery”
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Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020. chap. 16, “Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery”.
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Elkhorn's letters, accounts, surviving foundations and warehouse document ownership, labor, water, machinery and construction logistics.
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Approximate1,500letters are a surviving archive, not full correspondence. Emancipation and task assignments require careful qualification; owner aging observations are not trials.
PDF screens549–564, not printed pages. Paraphrase only; primary materials cited by Raitz have not been independently inspected merely because they appear in his bibliography.