by bourbonv » Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:40 am
Chuck,
I went back to the Carson reference and it seems to me that he was placing the time as late 1890s for Pepper introducing the Old Fashioned to New Yorkers. Everything else he is discussing is post Spanish American War. Unfortunately, there is no footnote here.
Mike Veach
"Our people live almost exclusively on whiskey" - E H Taylor, Jr. 25 April 1873