Content
Citation(s) & Footnote(s)
Book(s)Source account
PDF 106–109 connects Louisville's commerce with waterways, the falls, a canal bypass and rail connections. PDF 115–116 describes Maysville as a port and recounts a Bourbon County naming tradition, explicitly acknowledging objections to that tradition.
Distinguish the questions
A port's trading role, the route of a shipment, an advertisement's vocabulary, and the origin of a category name need different evidence. Even an authenticated early advertisement would show use at a date; it would not by itself identify the first use or the reason the name arose. The reported 1821 advertisement has not been inspected in this pass.
Mechanism and boundary
Transport costs and transfer points can shape where merchants gather. That is an analytical mechanism suggested by the Louisville account, not proof that every shipment followed one route or that a shipping location invented the product. Do not transfer modern visitor sites onto an early production map without checking each role and date.
Connections
Course use
In Myths & Memory, compare the river-trade account and the naming tradition. Identify a document that would test each claim without treating either as proof of the other.
Full-copy extension — September 28
All173 supplied sheets now read. PDF107's1806 map depicts contemplated canal routes, not the completed1830 canal; PDF111's1876 river/rail view belongs to a different moment. Neither proves a specific whiskey shipment. PDF110–111 explicitly derives its Tarascon hypothesis from Veach; these books do not constitute two independent witnesses. PDF29 gives the county naming story confidently, while PDF116 qualifies it. PDF117 labels Old Maysville Club as bourbon; the contemporary rye-malt mention on118 is a separate product identity. Preserve trade, production, bottling and heritage attribution as distinct questions.
The full critical review covers Prohibition, war, technical errors, allsidebars/figures and glossary. Earlier focused analysis retained; no publiccourse modifications.
