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He is the author of The Great Crossing: A Historic Journey to Buffalo Trace Distillery.   In this interview, Richard Taylor talks about the history of the Taylor family, including Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr., who bought the distillery now called Buffalo Trace in the 1870s. He also discusses the history of the Leestown area of Frankfort where Buffalo Trace is located. In addition, Taylor talks about the history of distilling in the area around Frankfort. He also describes Colonel Taylor's character and his life.  In addition, Taylor describes Colonel Taylor's contributions to the bourbon industry, which include his support of quality control regulation and his novel approaches to producing and marketing bourbon. 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And, uh, aside from teaching at a number of other places on a sort of part-time basis or for short stints, I taught a KSU for thirty-four years, retired last year and currently am a visiting writer, the Keenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University.  I live in Frankfort, outside of Frankfort. My wife and I own a bookstore called Poor Richard's Books.  I am a former poet-laureate of Kentucky from 1999 until 2001, and I just finished a book on Abraham Lincoln, a collection of sonnets that will be published at the end","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=60.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"son of Colonel George Taylor of Orange County, Virginia.  In fact, most of the Virginians or the Virginia Taylors who came to Kentucky were from Orange County.  Uh, my, my relation, strangely enough--and I did not know this until I was asked to, to write the book about Leestown--my ancestor was here with his brother. He was here.  He was sixteen or seventeen years of age.  He was here with his brother, oddly enough, whose name was Edmund in 1775 with, traveling with an English, um, tourist really named Nicholas Criswell. Nicholas Criswell--right on the eve of the revolution.  In fact, there are some wonderful","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"references to arguments that Edmund Taylor had with Criswell, and Criswell in his journal referred to Taylor as a red-hot liberty man.  And, uh, they camped.  They were actually--Criswell came down the Ohio, up the Kentucky, his destination was Harrodsburg.  With them was George Rogers Clark, strangely enough.  They traveled in two, um, canoes really, uh, it would have been dugout canoes, one of which was called The Charming Polly.  The other was The Charming Sally, and they camped somewhere near the distillery here and during the night, according to Criswell's account, uh, one of the people traveling with them actually slept in the boat.  And buffalo were crossing the river at that time, and one of them","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"landed in the boat and they lost many of their provisions.  Anyway, Reuben, uh, went back to Virginia, and he and--I think there were eleven brothers; ten of them were officers in the revolution--he came back to Kentucky after the war and, uh, settled in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in eastern Jefferson County, and, uh, I'm a descendant of those Taylors.  Commodore Richard, uh, Commodore Richard's cabin I saw for the first time about two weeks ago.  It's in Jefferson or on the Jefferson County/Oldham County line.  After he came to Frankfort, he came here--no one's quite sure about the date-- incidentally, he was not \"Commodore\" during the war. The commodore","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came as sort of an honorific after the war.  He did, uh, engage with the, uh, the British.  He--in what might be called skirmishes--and he was wounded, and it's said that what killed him eventually was, uh, wounds he had sustained in those, uh, sort of frays with, with the British. He was brought here by, I'm guessing, by Governor Shelby to work on navigation on the river.  Uh, the Kentucky River at that time, is very- -was, at that time, described as very different from what it is now. In fact, it was a, a line of what are called shoals and pools.  So it was not really very suitable for, for navigation beyond a canoe or a flatboat or even a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"keelboat. In order for the river trade to flourish, uh, there had to be sufficient draft for larger steamboats to move up and down the river.  So one of his jobs was to come here--he was hired because he had some association with water which is the only thing I know that would recommend him.  Uh, he was hired to, to work on this channelization, to exploit the commercial prospects of the river.  He built the house which is about, uh--what--forty yards from here, uh, a one-story stone house called Riverside.  His two sons eventually built houses on this property: Hopping Dick and, and Black Dick.  Neither of those houses survives.  This house is said to be and may be the oldest surviving house in, in,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=420.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"post-dated the formation of Boonesborough only by a few months.  Boonesborough was on--if I'm correct on this--on the south side of the river.  Uh, the founders of Leestown were Willis and Hancock Lee, brothers incidentally who were related to the Taylors, and how that relation works I'm not, I'm not certain but they, they knew each other and were related.  Uh, though the history is pretty sketchy, Willis Lee built a stockade here and that stockade was attacked in 1776, and the sole person, the sole fatality was Willis Lee.  His brother Hancock, uh, his brother Hancock, uh, remained here and looked after, uh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the interests, and in fact his--I want to say nephew, but I could be wrong about this--Willis Atwell Lee built one of the three surviving, uh--actually four if you count Riverside--domiciles or old structures from the original Leestown.  And I'm referring to Glen Willis which was built in 1815 has undergone a lot of alteration, but is, the core of it is essentially the house that dates from that, from that year.  My motivation, uh, I, very fortunately the distillery was able to provide me with some, some records and especially a text, uh, that had been commissioned at some","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"earlier date which had a lot of the core information I used in the, uh, the portion of it relating to distilleries.  Most of the, uh, information relating to Leestown I simply researched and dug up from a number, a number of sources including Nicholas Criswell.  Let me put in a word for Criswell here.  Criswell was twenty-four years of age.  He was from, I believe, Devonshire and returned to England when the revolution broke out, and for a period of 150 years, this manuscript survived in his household.  It was published--how it came to be published, I don't know, but it was published in the 1930s and it is one of the fullest early accounts of western settlement, uh, from an actual--let's call him","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=660.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and just on the eve of revolution, and, uh, Clark, incidentally, when he came here described this site as the best land he had seen and, in fact, stated some intention to come back to this area and, and settle it.  There was another Taylor here very early, in fact, earlier than that, uh, a relation of Commodore Richard Taylor's who has associations here and is an ancestor of E.H. Taylor's, and his name was Hancock Taylor.  Hancock--don't ask me his genealogy--but Hancock was an early surveyor, a member of that family from Orange County and was in the state about the time Boone was.  In fact, he and his brother, Richard Taylor who was the father of Zachary Taylor, with one or two other","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"individuals actually canoed for the first recorded instance, uh, Euro-Americans going down the river, down the Ohio all the way to New Orleans.  Taylor was hired by interests to come to Kentucky to seek out land, uh, under warrants for veterans of the French and Indian War.  He came in 1773, but be-, and did a number of surveys of, of, uh, property mostly in the inner-Bluegrass including some for himself around Midway.  Those claims were invalidated because he hadn't been properly authorized by William Preston who at that time was the, uh, the person in charge of--was sort of, like, a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"surveyor or--I don't remember his post--for the state of Virginia.  In order to validate those claims, he came back in 1774 and, at a time when there was a great deal of unrest on the frontier largely as the result of the gratuitous murder of a, uh, of the family of a--not Mohawk--but a, a chief named Chief Logan, and Logan's family was killed on the frontier and as a result there was a general uprising.  And the number of attacks on settlers in this area went up, and my strong suspicion is that, that Taylor pretty much fell a victim to that.  He was on the river, uh, with two others in a canoe on his way to rejoin the other surveying parties which","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were in this, in this river valley, and he was shot, we're not sure quite where, but it could be somewhere close to Frankfort.  He lived for two days.  Uh, he was shot apparently in the abdomen, and he succeeded in getting to Madison County and--where he died and was buried at a place called the Silver, the Taylor Fork of Silver Creek.  And strangely enough, this--earlier this year I got to see his grave which I'd suspected was long lost.  It now is on property belonging to Eastern Kentucky University, and, uh my good friend Neil Hammond who got me interested in Hancock Taylor, who is an expert on, uh, land and land surveys in early Kentucky, took myself and another","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person to, to the historical marker. And we were able--the marker says something like \"Hancock Taylor died a mile to the east,\" let's say--and we were able to find the site, stopped at a tenant house and were told, \"Oh, yes.  There's a pile of stones, uh, on the creek, and if you go in this\"--and actually they were in the process of setting up a commemoration for Hancock Taylor which I found really interesting. I want to write about Hancock Taylor.  In fact, I've started writing, projected a piece of fiction not even using his name but about land greed in Kentucky and the land fever that, uh, motivated so many people to come to this region.  In fact, to complete the story--this is getting rather boring, Tom, and we're getting off the subject--but, uh, Reuben and Edmund Taylor came here in order to look after","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1020.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the, one of the earliest municipal water sources in the country strangely enough is from Frankfort, Kentucky. It was established in about 1804 by Richard Throckmorton, and the water was run in bored out cedar pipes.  Anyway, uh, the water source was here, and most importantly, this came at a time when the river was being developed as a means to transport farm goods from Central Kentucky.  So all of the ingredients were here for--Leestown was also an early, early crossroads stemming from the fact that it was one of the few sites on the river where there was a natural crossing for buffalo which had been making that, uh, that circuit into the Bluegrass either toward Lexington or towards Georgetown, where in Georgetown where they were able","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to procure salt from places bearing the name Stamping Ground and, and Great Crossing.  So the early distilling, we don't know much about it, and, uh, in fact, uh, the whole history of early distilling in this state is, is sketchy largely because, uh, distilling was a tradition that most pioneers participated in and their various claims, as I'm sure you've read, about, uh, Elijah Craig in Georgetown or Jacob Spears in Bourbon County with, with accounts about how bourbon, uh, the, the stamped bourbon on barrels gave us the name bourbon itself. Bourbon, of course, derived from the, uh, the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bourbon family in, in France who were great allies of this country during, during the revolution, but as far as a date goes, I don't know, and I'm, I'm guessing in the 1780s.  I think that's the claim that, that is made, and, and yet there's just so little documentation, uh, about just when it happened.  We know it happened here, and we know that whiskey early on was, uh, shipped from Leestown as well a little later from Frankfort, uh, due to the efforts of the founder of Frankfort, uh, General James Wilkinson who was, who had an entrepreneurial spirit and established Frankfort as a port managing to sort of steal, uh, the thunder, so to speak, of, of Leestown in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1260.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to its liquid form, uh, not only could more corn be transported but it, it undertook or assumed much greater value and so it was a natural as a commercial commodity.  But the fact that, you know--Isaac Shelby, our first governor, had a still, operated a still and it would have been a routine part of any farming organization.  The real question, the difficult question is when the production of, of bourbon whiskey became commercially undertaken, when it became, in effect, an industry, and, and, uh, there are, there were several individuals in this area, the Pepper family, a little later James Crow, uh, who contributed to the formation of bourbon. But beyond that we","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1380.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sense. During his career, according to The Great Crossing, the book I recently looked at again, uh, he established seven different distilleries.  It's remarkable.  I mean, this guy was a, uh, he was an entrepreneur, but at the same time, he took great pride in the purity of his product, uh, and fought a lifelong war during these 1870s and 80s through the turn of the century to keep, to protect the quality of bourbon, straight bourbon whiskey; protect it from those who would adulterate it, uh, those who would create blends or who would rectify it or, uh, add syrup and whatever ingredients or coloring in order to make,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uh, a cheaper whiskey that was more sellable. Uh, so he was a kind of quality control advocate very early on.  He was also a, um, a good citizen.  He was, as we said, connected.  He was connected politically.  He served as mayor of Frankfort for, I think, a period of sixteen years.  He served in the State Legislature both in the Senate and in the, uh, the House.  Um, as Taylor Hay may have told you, there is a, uh, a diploma at Scotland--a diploma or a, uh, a scroll which- -awarding him his degree as a master of hospitality, and, uh, I don't know whether that was mentioned or not but, but it's a great, it's a great tribute to the man.  And, uh, in the book, I make some references","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1740.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uh, run through copper piping and, and did not come in contact with any other metal.  In fact, I think the vats that were used for the production were actually, um, lined with, with copper.  The other was Carlisle Distillery, and Carlisle--I'm a little vague on this--but that Carlisle name resonates.  One, there was a Carlisle who was a, a senator or political figure nationally who, uh, who helped produce, who, who ushered in legislation protecting the industry, but I'm sure Taylor would have known that his Taylors came from Carlisle, England.  And, uh, I don't know that I, I mentioned that even in the book, but, um, the Taylors originally are from Carlisle, England; so that name would","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1860.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time when he had had contact with the so-called bourbon aristocrats--Peppers and others and James Crow who introduced, who was, who had training as a chemist, as a doctor from Edinburgh--and so he knew the value of producing a superior product and yet he knew after the Civil War, during the rise of the, the so-called gilded age in America, that there was money to be made in adopting industrial, entrepreneurial, uh, organizations in order to produce quantities of, of goods.  But the quantity--I guess where the rub comes is that insisting on, or in his goal to produce a greater quantity of whiskey, he was not willing to sacrifice","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=1980.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was what, what was the mail like? (laughs) You know, Old Taylor, uh, who does it--do you give it to Taylor or do you give it to Stagg? Uh, but it tells you, I guess, that how fluid--no pun intended- -how fluid his operations were and as, as the book, uh, recounts he, uh, went from rags to riches more than once and was in the better sense of the term a kind of wheeler--I don't want to make this negative--a kind of wheeler-dealer, and I think he must have been in order to survive, in order to, uh, go for the main chance and, and, uh, produce a first- rate bourbon but also to do that profitably.  And there's that wonderful story in the book about--in fact, I think Taylor told me this--about, uh, Taylor at,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6#t=2280.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://nunncenter.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1/collection_resources/6/file/6/transcript/6/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uh, in his old age, um, falling ill and overhearing two doctors, uh, say, \"Well, what, what a shame to see a man who's accomplished as much as E.H.  Taylor has to die poor.\" And the story was that he popped up in bed, he shortly thereafter recovered and he died a very wealthy man.  I love that story.  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