Useful for recovering women’s economic agency without reproducing the mythmaking through which that agency became publicly legible.
The profile distinguishes documented commercial activity from the sensational image built around her.
Gertrude Lythgoe operated in wholesale liquor and complex cross-border trade while newspapers and later retellings recast her as a glamorous or mysterious Prohibition character. The gap between her business role and her media persona shows how gendered publicity can both preserve and distort a participant’s place in whiskey history.
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September29 fresh audit: sequential supplied text read1–249, all-page visual survey and selected enlarged details. This is a source-attributed paraphrase, not independent factual validation. Memoir tasting tests are not validated analytical methods; McCoy etymology unverified.
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