Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Native Americans told the first European explorers to expect the Mississippi River to flood every 14 years. Since then, every generation of settlers to the ...

Mississippi, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln saw the emancipated river as a symbol of a nation unified: “The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea,” he wrote. Mark Twain ...

Influenced by the Mississippi River, which coursed by his boyhood ... Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially American.

Mark Twain, of course ... Huck’s beautiful and lyrically flowing description of a sunrise on the Mississippi. (“Then the river softened up, away off, and warn’t black any more, but gray ...

Mississippi River cruises offer travelers a way to explore ... best known as the town where Mark Twain grew up, and Burlington, Iowa, home of the extremely crooked street Snake Alley.

Brandon Himmel, music minister of the First Christian Church, will entertain during a night of Southern Gospel Music on the ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a ...

Judging from the inscription, this book about steamboat navigation on the Missouri River appears to have been presented to Twain by Frederic Remington, the artist, in 1906. The inscription ...