Returns are incomplete and may combine origins. Distilled-spirit totals are not bourbon totals, still counts are not establishment counts, and not every cargo went directly to New Orleans.
Exchange networks and notes; supplied 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
Whiskey served in barter and commercial transport with repeated downriver markets. Crowgey uses customs returns and state manufacturing totals to describe scale.
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80
Exchange networks and notes
Read against supplied PDF text and images. Locators are PDF screens, not printed pages. Verified means faithful source capture, not independent historical corroboration. Returns are incomplete and may combine origins. Distilled-spirit totals are not bourbon totals, still counts are not establishment counts, and not every cargo went directly to New Orleans.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
Evidence
Whiskey served in barter and commercial transport with repeated downriver markets. Crowgey uses customs returns and state manufacturing totals to describe scale.
Location and context
No access; Exchange networks and notes; supplied PDF screens 80–88. These are not printed-page numbers. Edition: 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
Annotation
Returns are incomplete and may combine origins. Distilled-spirit totals are not bourbon totals, still counts are not establishment counts, and not every cargo went directly to New Orleans.
Verification and use
Returns are incomplete and may combine origins. Distilled-spirit totals are not bourbon totals, still counts are not establishment counts, and not every cargo went directly to New Orleans.
Faithful source capture checked against supplied text and images. This does not mean that every cited-through primary record has been independently verified.
Literature note: Crowgey — Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking. Citation:
Crowgey — Barter, rivers and incomplete trade totals.