"Big Muddy" (Missouri or Mississippi RIver?); Barbeque (1760s)

[Anne Gilbert]

All:

I always thought "Big Muddy" referred to the Mississippi not Missouri,
River.  Which is odd, because I live an awful lot closer to the latter
river.
Anne G
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> BIG MUDDY
>
>    The RHHDAS has two entries for "Big Muddy."  It's 1825, 1859, and 1913
for
> the Missouri River.  It's 1846 and then 1956 for the Mississippi River.
>     Check out these citations, found on the NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN'S LETTERS
> AND DIARIES database.  The excerpts I copied don't clearly state which
river,
> but you can check for yourself.
>
> Enos, Salome Paddock, _Diary of Salame Paddock Enos, September 1816_, in
THE
> DIARY OF SALOME PADDOCK ENOS, SPringifeld, IL: Illinois State Historical
> Society, 1920, pg. 377:
>
>    Monday 30th cloudy roads better traveled over the pyraees found
pleasant
> beyond my expectations forded big muddy put up at a miserable cabin had an
> Idiot for landlady and a savage for a landlord 17 miles.
>
>
> Steele, Eliza R. Stansbury, _Letter from Eliza R. Steele, July 12, 1840_,
in
> SUMMER JOURNEY IN THE WEST, New York: John S. Taylor, 1841, pg. 205:
>
>    At the mouth of Big Muddy river, forty miles below Kaskaskia, we
stopped
> to take in wood, and we went on shore to take an evening stroll.
>
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> BARBEQUE/BARBECUE
>
>    I have a stack of food terms here, but I'll throw in a quick "barbeque"
> and "barbecue" from the earliest cites on this same database.
>
>
> Holyoke, Mary Vial, 1737-1802, THE HOLYOKE DIARIES, 1709-1865, Dow, George
> Francis, Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911.
>
> _Diary of Mary Vial Holyoke_, May 1761, pg. 50:
>    Went to a Barbeque at Jonson's, 50 in company.
>
> _Diary of Mary Vial Holyoke, June 1761, pg. 50:
>    Went to Barbeque at ye Fort.
>
> _Diary of Mary Vial Holyoke_, January 1764, pg. 64:
>    Went to a Barbeque at Jonson's.
>
>
> Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau, 1775?-1865, _Diary of Anna Maria Thornton,
> September 1800_, in DIARY OF MRS. WILLIAM THORNTON, 1800-1863, Washington,
> DC: Columbia Historical Society, 1907, pg. 196:
>    They had been at a Barbecue at the Hotel Spring given by Darnall the
> Sheriff.


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