While millions of Arkansans have grown up within miles of the Mississippi River, it doesn’t exactly make the list for popular day trip destinations, and with good reason: Northwest Arkansas and Hot ...

It's only accessible by boat, is free to use by anyone and was inspiration for a famous artist. Why did locals first think ...

Tom Lee, a Black levee worker, heroically rescued 32 passengers from a capsized steamboat in the Mississippi River in 1925.

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

For years I had been hearing about a couple of guys, who in the early 1970s, boated from Cadillac to New Orleans.

Back on May 8th, 1925, Tom Lee saved over 30 people after a steamboat overturned on the Mississippi River. Quincy Morris, the ...

Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states in early April and ...

Thursday is Tom Lee Day in Memphis, honoring the man who saved over 30 people from drowning in the Mississippi River 100 ...

Mississippi artist Walter Anderson escaped to Horn Island off the coast of Jackson County, as do boaters and campers. Now a ...

As boat owners and water enthusiasts are getting ready to hit Missouri lakes and rivers, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) warns boat owners to be on the lookout for the infamous invasive ...

M.E. Norman capsized and Tom Lee rescued 32 people, The Daily Memphian tells the story of the disaster, Tom Lee and how the ...

I still get butterflies and excitement when the Minnesota walleye season begins. This year's opener is set for Saturday, May ...