Did Mark Twain popularize "high muckymuck"?

[Peter Webster]

"Roughing It"
On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:40 AM, Anthony Grant wrote:

> I think I've seen "high-you mucketymuck" somewhere i Twain.....
>
>>>> David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU> 12/11/06 11:43 pm >>>
> 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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