Steamboat Arabia

The founder of the Steamboat Arabia Museum in Kansas City backs legislation that would move it to Jefferson City.It comes as David Hawley plans a new…

Hundreds of steamboats are buried underground along the banks of the Missouri River. We just don’t know where they are. One of them, however, was recently…

Segment 1: Did you know that lice prefer O+ bloodtypes and round hair follicles?There is a stigma around having lice, but keeping quiet about the issue…

It was smelly, crowded and potentially life-threatening, but riding on a steamboat was de rigeur for travelers to Kansas City in the mid-nineteenth…

Every Kansas Citian has a list of out-of-towner attractions — barbecue, the Nelson-Atkins, a stroll through the Plaza. But we have been wondering: what…