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 ...

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.

Explore Mark Twain's greatest books, from timeless adventures to sharp wit and humor. Discover the classics that shaped American literature.

of inflated memory," and, speaking of indifference which attended the discovery of the Mississippi, remarks, "Apparently, nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

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.