Ozark National Scenic Riverways (NSR) was created by an Act of Congress on August 27, 1964, to protect 134 miles of the Current and Jacks Fork Rivers. Ozark NSR was the nation’s first “scenic riverways”—preceding the Wild and Scenic River Act by four years. President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law and Ozark NSR became …
On this date in 1896, through May 24th, the most famous show of its type, the original and biggest spectacle of its age, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show stopped in St. Louis. It set up at the corner of Compton and Manchester. The show was so large it required 15 acres of empty ground to …
A very unusual steamboat arrived in St. Louis on this day in 1918. Called “Long’s Dragon,” in reference to explorer Steven Long, the Western Engineer was built to travel up the Missouri. It was shaped and painted to resemble a huge serpent. This gave the steamboat a unique way to announce its presence, since the …
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