Did Mark Twain popularize "high muckymuck"?

[David Robertson]

Charles Lovell. 1947.  The background of Mark Twain's vocabulary.  American 
Speech 22(2): 88-98.

Devotes a few pages to finding the first known usages of this phrase in 
Engilsh.  Looks to have emanated mainly via California newspapers in the 
1850s and 1860s--?  I'll have to re-read some time.

Maybe Twain popularized this word beyond the (North)West.

--Dave R

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