The Missouri River.
1863. We expect ere long to stand on the banks of the “Big Muddy,” and meet the hominy-fed lasses of the Butternut State.—Rocky Mountain News (Denver), March 19.
1869. The waters of the “Big Muddy,” as the Indians call the Missouri, are not of a kind calculated to leave a clean record.—Atlantic Monthly, p. 331 (Sept.).
1870. It [the Missouri] has been called mighty, which it doubtless is, considered as a stream, yet the appellation of ‘Big Muddy,’ which is current here, is the one which more truthfully characterises it.—Rae, ‘Westward by Rail,’ p. 67 (Lond.).
