Veach's PDF11 directly rejects the Kentucky flight story that Carson narrates on37. Foreword is a later interpretation, not independent validation of every replacement claim.
Chapter-level paraphrase checked against the sequential September29 reading; the former single-sheet locator only identified a chapter opening.
Mike Veach identifies the book as a pioneering social history while warning that later research has corrected several origin stories and assumptions.
PDF sheet 12
PDF sheet 10
Foreword to the New Edition
2026-09-29: PDF sheets 10–12 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination). Verified as a representation of this source, not independent factual corroboration. Embedded fineprint gaps and overall source limits remain in LIT-277.
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