Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more famously known by his pen name, Mark Twain ... a steamboat man on the great Mississippi River, so he returned to the land of his youth to become a pilot, that ...

It was built by Horace Bixby, a renowned steamboat pilot and captain who taught Mark Twain the art of piloting. The two were lifelong friends, as noted in Twain’s book, “Life on the ...

That’s two fathoms — or “mark twain,” if you’re using steamboat terminology. On the monument was a bronze likeness of the author, along with a similar plaque displaying the profile of ...

We have our doubts about Mark Twain standing at the wheel in the pilothouse of a Mississippi steamboat what time ... narrating the adventures of a cub pilot on the Mississippi as the cub's mentor ...