Connects agriculture, logistics, commerce, and medicinal use in the expansion of American grain distilling.
The transport comparison is a source-reported lead and should be checked against its underlying historical source before publication.
English describes inland colonial and early-republic distillers turning local rye and later corn into whiskey because the concentrated product was easier to transport and trade and was also treated as medicine.
PDF sheet 193
Chapter 6 — Whiskey in America
Checked against extracted text for PDF sheet 193 during the complete 359-sheet review and against the sequential visual pass on 2026-08-26.
Capture evidence faithfully. Select one Source, record a usable locator, and preserve enough surrounding context to prevent misquotation.
Evidence
Paste the exact quote, paraphrase, statistic, definition, or source claim into Excerpt Text. Use Excerpt Type to distinguish quotation from interpretation.
Location and context
Record Locator Type, Locator Start, Locator End when needed, and Source Section. Explain the surrounding argument in Context.
Annotation
In Annotation, state why this evidence matters. Add approved Tags for retrieval and connect it to every relevant Literature Note.