Do not convert the 1936–40 hunting window into an exact founding date. Narrative p.30 gives 1938 for the distribution change; timeline p.199 gives 1939. Early sourcing is not a fully documented fixed mash bill.
Printed pages 27–32; PDF pages 38–43. Full work reviewed; this is a thematic paraphrase, not a direct quotation.
The New York grocery and distribution lineage developed separately from the Kentucky production lineage. The 1855 association concerns a predecessor business, not a continuously operating Wild Turkey distillery. Wild Turkey initially sold sourced whiskey. Jennings labels the McCarthy hunting story a legend and places the brand on retail shelves in 1942.
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Austin Nichols, brand origins, and the hunting legend
Verified against supplied PDF as an attributed account; verification does not establish the external truth of every source claim. Fresh audit: billhead PDF40 establishes wholesale-grocery identity, not a distillery. Hunting legend remains a range, not an exact documented date.
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Evidence
The New York grocery and distribution lineage developed separately from the Kentucky production lineage. The 1855 association concerns a predecessor business, not a continuously operating Wild Turkey distillery. Wild Turkey initially sold sourced whiskey. Jennings labels the McCarthy hunting story a legend and places the brand on retail shelves in 1942.
Location and context
Printed pp. 27–32 (PDF 38–43). Paraphrase of Jennings, not a quotation.
Annotation
Do not convert the 1936–40 hunting window into an exact founding date. Narrative p.30 gives 1938 for the distribution change; timeline p.199 gives 1939. Early sourcing is not a fully documented fixed mash bill.
