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    The Big Muddy River is a 156-mile-long (251 km) river in southern Illinois. It joins the Mississippi River just south of Grand Tower. The Big Muddy has...
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  • Big Muddy may refer to: Big Muddy, Wyoming, U.S. Big Muddy Badlands, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Montana, U.S. Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River tributary)...
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    Big Muddy Creek is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 191 mi (307 km) long, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and the U.S. state of...
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  • The Big Muddy River Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in Ina, Jefferson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the...
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  • Vermilion River Salt Fork Vermilion River Saline Branch Boneyard Creek Cache River Cypress Creek Big Muddy River Beaucoup Creek Little Muddy River Casey Creek...
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  • created when the United States Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Big Muddy River. The dam and lake were authorized in 1962, but the lake was not completely...
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  • "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 and made famous because of its censorship from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour...
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    Big Muddy River. The Big Muddy has been dammed to form Rend Lake, with arms of the lake extending up the two tributaries. Ina is the home of the Big Muddy...
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  • The Little Muddy River is a 72.9-mile-long (117.3 km) tributary of the Big Muddy River in Illinois. It forms the boundary between Franklin and Perry counties...
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    The Big Muddy Badlands are a series of badlands in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, and northern Montana, United States, in the Big Muddy Valley and along...
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    McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure...
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  • beaten and one victim's body later found elsewhere The construction of Big Muddy River Correctional Center near the scene since then has obstructed that view...
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    from Kaskaskia to the interior of the state followed the Kaskaskia/[[Big Muddy River]] divide, which went through Walnut Hill. George Rogers Clark marched...
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    from the Mississippi River along Illinois Route 3, especially near the towns of Wolf Lake, Grand Tower and Ware. The Big Muddy River cuts through the hills...
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    Jackson County, Illinois (category Illinois counties on the Mississippi River)
    Boone and his indentured servant Peter mined coal from the banks along Big Muddy River. This was Illinois' first coal mine. By 1813, Conrad Will, namesake...
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    and the lower part of the Milk River tributary took over the original main channel. The Missouri's nickname, the "Big Muddy", was inspired by its enormous...
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    States, south of Murphysboro. It is located on the east bank of the Big Muddy River across from Turkey Bayou to the west, between Swallow Rock to the north...
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  • representing 0.43% of the popular vote. He has been incarcerated at Big Muddy River Correctional Center since 2022 serving 7 year sentence after being...
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    Dix is located on high ground that marks the boundary between the Big Muddy River and its tributary, Casey Creek. Today Dix is an exit on Interstate...
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    (LSU 2022), Waterlines (LSU 2016), Hurricane Party (Akron 2011), and Big Muddy River of Stars (2007), which won the Akron Poetry Prize. In 2023, she was...
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    made a wide arc across Jefferson County, crossing Casey Creek and the Big Muddy north of Mt. Vernon, avoiding the swamps to the south, but bypassing Mt...
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  • The Big Muddy oil field is an oil field in Converse County, Wyoming, between Casper and Glenrock. After a positive recommendation in 1913 from the U.S...
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    completion of his Pennsylvania sentence in 1988 at age 43, he was moved to Big Muddy River Correctional Center in Ina, Illinois to complete sentencing terms for...
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    River South Fork Musselshell River Milk River Big Sandy Creek Frenchman River Battle Creek Redwater River Poplar River Big Muddy Creek Little Muddy Creek...
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  • shore, Big Muddy Creek flows out and to the south. It is a tributary of the Missouri River.[citation needed] Big Muddy Lake is part of Big Muddy Lake (and...
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    Casey Creek (Illinois) (category Tributaries of the Mississippi River)
    Casey Creek is a major tributary of the Big Muddy River in Illinois, United States. It is about 39.0 miles (62.8 km) long, measured from the junction...
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    Mississippi River valley: Foundations, florescence, and fragmentation." Journal of World Prehistory (1990) 4#1 pp: 1–43. Morris, Christopher. The Big Muddy: An...
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    Ohio River. The road ran easterly out of Steeleville to a point southwest of Du Quoin. There it turned to the southeast to cross the Big Muddy River and...
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  • Route 3 between the Big Muddy River to the north and Ware to the south. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Mississippi River. The nearest incorporated...
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    European settlers, the Illinois accepted a reservation in 1832 at the Big Muddy River south of Kaskaskia. But within a few months, they ceded the rest of...
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