While Missouri is known as the “Show Me State,” it’s also been deemed the “Cave State” as there are around 7,500 caves, ...

There is 1 Mark Twain high school girls basketball game in Missouri on Saturday, March 15, 2025. The first game, Northeast vs Chadwick, starts at .

Starting in mid-April, crews will begin work to improve the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge on Interstate 72 near Hannibal ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. — Planned work on the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge in Hannibal ... the rehabilitation work will be pushed to later in the spring. Missouri Department of Transportation's Northeast ...

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow ... among other things, his salad days in Hannibal, Missouri, his riverboat piloting career on the Mississippi, his extreme good fortune as a novelist and orator ...

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835 — the year ... which coursed by his boyhood home of Hannibal, Mo, Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The ...

“And he’s from Missouri, you know, you can go see his house.” Mark Twain’s boyhood home is in the center of Hannibal, on a cobblestoned square where significant buildings from his early ...

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Mark Twain chronicled his experiences ... Traveling in his fast coach, Twain made the arduous trip from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Carson City, Nevada in only 21 days. In Wyoming, the mail coach ...