The author Mark Twain, who was born Samuel Clemens, is thought to have contributed to the popularity of the name. Twain ...

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

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

Rivers of America, the Liberty Square Riverboat and Tom Sawyer Island at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla, is closing and ...

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.

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.

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 ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (KHQA) - After a deadly duck boat tragedy near Branson, Missouri last week, water safety on tourist rides are now at the forefront of everyone's minds throughout the country.

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...