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1765 R. Rogers Conc. Acct. N. Amer. 190 The Muddy River rises from the south of the central mountains..and runs south..till it meets the Mississippi.]

1825 in S. F. Cooper Rural Hours (1850) 481 Ye plains where sweet Big-Muddy rolls along, And Teapot, one day to be found in song.

?1845 Crockett's Almanac, 1846 Down the Mississippi... Ben and me went to take passage down the Big Muddy.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xvi. 129 When it was daylight, here was the clear Ohio water in shore,..and outside was the old regular Muddy.

1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 438/2 From St. Louis west and north, up the valley of the Big Muddy, all the way to Kansas City.

1948 Newsweek 30 Aug. 21/3 We're going clear to the Missouri River and smash this stuff back across the Big Muddy.

1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station 25 Jake..kept his money..cached beyond the clearing of his cabin on the Muddy in a hole in a rock wall.

1999 Esquire Mar. 46/1 What you'd hear if you picked up every hitchhiking musician along the Big Muddy from Minnesota to Louisiana.