Supports an uncertainty boundary. All early advertisements, correspondence, and name-origin theories still require primary-source verification.
The book presents several hypotheses and explicitly distinguishes them from settled origin history.
After comparing Craig, Bourbon County, and Bourbon Street explanations, Minnick concludes that the inventor of bourbon and the reason for its name may never be established definitively.
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