Early Party Barge on the Osage to Monegaw Springs
Nearly a century before Lake of the Ozarks’ infamous Party Cove, people found entertainment on the free-flowing Osage. Small steamboats,…
Lock & Dam No. 1 on the Lower Osage
In 1886, an Osage River Improvement Committee convened and, using Army Engineers plans, challenged Congress to make the river navigable…
Giant Osage River Catfish
On the first page of the first chapter in Damming the Osage, we wrote: After being the subject of the…
MYSTERY of the intrusive stick and ball SOLVED
Awkward photographic framing can produce puzzling images. It’s not a coincidence that surrealism came on after the invention and widespread…