Joseph W. McClurg, 19th Governor of Missouri
Joseph W. McClurg and partners grossed half-a-million dollars a year at their Linn Creek Big Store before…
Damming the Osage
Steamboat J.R. Wells Unloading at Tuscumbia, Circa 1900
This stern-wheeler worked the river below Warsaw delivering farm produce and timber to a rail connection at Osage City,…
Steamboat J. R. Wells on the Osage
Steamboat J. R. Wells at Linn Creek, late 1800s A few steamboats still operated on the lower Osage River in…
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,…