On cemeteries:
Last Great Necessity, The: Cemeteries in American History, David Charles Sloane (John Hopkins University Press, 1991)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
Rest in Peace: A History of American Cemeteries, Meg Greene (Twenty-First Century Books, 2008)
Information on graves that we did not visit in person is taken from www.findagrave.com.
On distilling history:
Beverages and Their Adulteration, Harvey Washington Wiley, (P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1919)
Bluegrass, Belles, and Bourbon: A Pictorial History of Whiskey in Kentucky, Harry Harrison Kroll (A. S. Barnes and Co., 1967)
Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit, Dane Huckelbridge (William Morrow, 2014)
Bourbon: The Evolution of Kentucky Whiskey, Sam K. Cecil (Turner Publishing, 2010)
Bourbon, Strange: Surprising Stories of American Whiskey, Charles K. Cowdery (Made and Bottled in Kentucky, 2014)
Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey, Reid Mitenbuler (Viking, 2015)
Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking, Henry G. Crowgey (University Press of Kentucky, 2008)
Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage, Michael R. Veach (University Press of Kentucky, 2013)
Moonshine: A Cultural History of America’s Infamous Liquor, Jaime Joyce (Zenith Press, 2014)
Preyer’s Information and Guide for the Liquor Business, Edgar Reuben Preyer (Edgar R. Preyer, 1901)
Whiskey Rebellion, The: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty, William Hogeland (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
On specific distillers:
Bahama Queen, The: Prohibition’s Daring Beauty, Gertrude C. Lythgoe (Flat Hammock Press, 2007 reprint of 1964 text)
Beam, Straight Up: The Bold Story of the First Family of Bourbon, Fred Noe with Jim Kokoris (John Wiley & Sons, 2012)
Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel, Peter Krass (John Wiley & Sons, 2004)
Blood & Wine: The Unauthorized Story of the Gallo Empire, Ellen Hawkes (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
Bronfmans, The: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram, Nicholas Faith (Thomas Dunne, 2006)
But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald, Sally Van Winkle Campbell (Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, 2014)
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, Stephen Puleo (Beacon Press, 2004)
Declaration of the State of the Colonie and Affaires in Virginia, A, Edward Waterhouse, accessed from encyclopediavirginia.org (Original text 1622)
Gallo Be Thy Name: The Inside Story of How One Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market, Jerome Tuccille (Phoenix Books, 2009)
Good Spirits: The Making of a Businessman, Edgar M. Bronfman (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998)
History of Kentucky, Lewis Collins (Collins & Co., 1882)
Jokichi Takamine (1854–1922) and Caroline Hitch Takamine (1866–1954): Biography and Bibliography, William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, ed. (Soyinfo Center, 2012)
King of the Bootleggers: A Biography of George Remus, William A. Cook (McFarland & Co., 2008)
Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers, James B. Taylor (Sheldon & Company, 1860)
Overholt (A.) & Co.: A History of the Company and the Overholt Family, 1940, Karen Rose Overholt Critchfield, ed., accessed via Overholt Genealogy Website (www. karensbranches.com)
Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 1, 1770-1803, The, Sam B. Smith & Harriet Chappell Owsley, ed. (University of Tennessee Press, 1980)
Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America, Kathleen Donegan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Story of the Bernheim Family, The, Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, (John P. Morton & Company, 1910)
Thomas Mellon and His Times, Thomas Mellon (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994)
Social History:
Cane Ridge: America’s Pentecost, Paul K. Conkin (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990)
Secrets of the Internal Revenue, The, U. S. Vidocq [pseudonum], Franklin Eliot Felton, ed. (William Flint, 1869)
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, Michael A. Lerner (Harvard University Press, 2007)
How the Other Half Lives, Jacob A. Riis (Dover Publications, 1971)
Island at the Center of the World, The: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, Russell Shorto (Vintage Books, 2005)
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Daniel Okrent (Scribner, 2010)
Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking, Mark Will-Weber (Regency Publishing, 2014)
Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906, James Harvey Young (Princeton University Press, 1989)
Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey, Fred Minnick (Potomac Books, 2013)
Pictorial Histories:
Bardstown, Dixie Hibbs (Arcadia Publishing, 1998)
Book of Bourbon and Other Fine American Whiskeys, The, Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan (Chapters Publishing Ltd., 1995)
Cave Hill Cemetery: A Pictorial Guide and History of Louisville’s “City of the Dead,” Samuel W. Thomas (Cave Hill Cemetery, 1985)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Alexandra Kathryn Mosca (Arcadia Publishing, 2008)
Kentucky Bourbon Trail, The, Berkeley and Jeanine Scott (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)
Whiskey: An American Pictorial History, Oscar Getz (David McKay Company, 1978)
Periodicals:
Atlanta Constitution, “Distiller Converted and Joins Church,” April 28, 1909 (Jack Daniel)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “Nancy the Moonshiner—A Story of New Jersey and Its Applejack,” February 2, 1896
Corbin Times-Tribune, “Harlan’s Leading Bootlegger Has Plenty of Friends,” May 31, 1972 (Mag Bailey)
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), “At Atlanta—The Remains of Paul Jones May Rest,” February 25, 1895 (Paul Jones); “Remains of W. L. Wller Sent from Ocala Fla., Yesterday,” March 25, 1899 (W. L. Weller)
Delphos Daily Herald, “Leaps to Death in California,” April 2, 1945 (I. W. Bernheim)
Fresno Bee, “Fresno Farmer and Wife Victims of Murder and Suicide,” June 21, 1933 (Joseph Gallo)
Esquire, “The Poison Squad: An Incredible History,” Bruce Watson, June 27, 2013 (Harvey Washington Wiley); “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!” Tom Wolfe, March 1965 (Lloyd Seay)
Galveston Daily News, “Moonshine Mary Is Convicted in Death,” March 22, 1924 (Mary Wazeniak)
Index-Journal (Greenwood, SC), “Stock Car Racing Now Is Big Business,” Paul Hemphill, November 17, 1970 (Lloyd Seay)
Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal, July 22, 1871 (Clinton Gilbert)
Long Island Historical Journal, “Moonshiners in Brooklyn: Federal Authority Confronts Urban Culture, 1869–1880,” Wilbur Miller, Vol 2, No. 2.
Los Angeles Herald, “Distilling Brandy, the Grape Growers’ Distillery Hard at Work,” October 8, 1886 (L. J. Rose)
New York Times, “James Crow, Whisky Maker,” September 9, 1897; “The Whiskey War: A Military Expedition to ‘Irishtown’ Oakland Tribune, “Woman Fights Woman—Lady Bootleggers and Feminine Sleuths Tilt as the Fair Sex Goes to the Front Line with the Sock Troops of the Rum War,” August 5, 1928 (Gertrude Lythgoe)
Philadelphia Times, “The Whiskey Inquiry,” February 9, 1893 (Joseph Greenhut)
Rutland County Herald, “The Cause of Temperance,” July 6, 1840 (W. H. Harrison)
San Francisco Chronicle, “Suicide of L. J. Rose—Noted Los Angeles Man Ends His Life with Morphine,” May 18, 1899 (L. J. Rose)
Santa Ana Register, “Former Rum Row Queen Haunted by Fear of Jinx,” June 10, 1926 (Gertrude Lythgoe)
Slate, “The Chemist’s War,” Deborah Blum, February 19, 2010 (Mary Wazeniak)
Sports Illustrated, “The Legend Lloyd Seay Was the Young Sport’s Brightest Star Until He Was Gunned Down,” Ed Hinton, January 28, 1998 (Lloyd Seay)
Tipton Daily Tribune, “Assignment America,” Phillis Battelle, May 22, 1958 (Lewis Rosenstiel)
Film:
Prohibition, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, 2011
Websites:
hillforest.org (Thomas Gaff)
montanawomenshistory.org (Birdie Brown)
pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com (Louis Fleischmann, Thomas Gaff, Mary Dowling)
sippncorn.blogspot.com (James Crow, E. H. Taylor)
