Grant horses/carriage narrative125 must be read with chapter note261, which explicitly reports its rejection by later scholarship. Chronology145 also needs checking.
Chapter-level paraphrase checked against the sequential September29 reading; the former single-sheet locator only identified a chapter opening.
The 1870s Whiskey Ring used falsified production and tax records, bribed officials, and political protection to divert excise revenue on a large scale.
PDF sheet 146
PDF sheet 119
Chapter 11 — The Great Whiskey Steal
2026-09-29: PDF sheets 119–146 (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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