Val Kilmer shared a heartbreaking tragedy with his hero, Mark Twain, which was a major factor in why he idolized the author.

Twain slumped as he played poker, studying his cards, hefting a bottle of dark beer and chain-smoking cigars, to which he had become addicted during his stint as a pilot for steamboats on the ...

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark ... Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which Ernest Hemmingway characterized as "the best book we've had ...

Most people thought that this geyser field had died and now it's starting to re-emerge," Wilson said during ... than Mark Twain, who observed that the bubbling sounded like a churning steamboat ...

Once, the Hudson River was crammed with pleasure boats, taking city folks to picnics and parks all summer long.

The American Duchess, a luxurious river cruise paddle-wheeler, recently sailed past Osceola's Sans Souci Landing, evoking the ...