Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

All references to the Mark Twain riverboat have been removed from the Disneyland Paris website, indicating that there is no intention to fix the abandoned boat. Disneyland Paris Riverboats Years ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Riverboat Captain Steve Terry discussed Sam Clemens' time piloting riverboats. The C-SPAN School Bus traveled to Hannibal, MO to visit the Riverboat Mark Twain.

Jen Holst is in the wheelhouse of the Mark Twain Riverboat at Disneyland in this 2013 photo. Running the steam-powered riverboat takes a coordinated effort between the captain in the wheelhouse ...

The Mark Twain Riverboat plies the Rivers of America in Frontierland at Disneyland. The steam-powered paddle wheeler is an idealized re-creation of the boats that used to haul passenger and ...

The Mark Twain riverboat will no longer offer cruises on the Arkansas River after a recent inspection found that a tugboat that is tied to the vessel is at risk of sinking.

A fork in the river. NLR, riverboat parting ways. Mark Twain at risk tied to deteriorating tug, city says. December 30, 2015 at 5:59 a.m. by Jake Sandlin ...

Mark Twain sprang to life at a young age. His voice is clear when Samuel Clemens was 17 and got to New York and wrote to his mother on Aug. 24, 1853: “My Dear Mother: you will doubtless be a ...

Twain was buried with his wife’s family at Woodlawn Cemetery in a grave marked by a 12-foot tall granite marker. 12 feet is two fathoms, the measure called out by riverboat captains as “mark ...