Up the river road to Mark Twain’s hometown. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The Historian188 km · about 114 min · 23 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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St. Louis, Missouri
Scott Joplin's St. Louis Residence
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St. Louis, Missouri
The Gateway Arch Construction Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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St. Louis, Missouri
The Gateway Arch Construction Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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St. Louis, Missouri
The Gateway Arch Construction Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Chesterfield, Missouri
The 1947 U.S. Open
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Chesterfield, Missouri
The Rural Hamlet of Orrville
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O'Fallon, Missouri
The Geology of the Missouri Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Lake St. Louis, Missouri
The Geology of the Missouri Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Wentzville, Missouri
The Geology of the Missouri Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Foristell, Missouri
Wentzville Assembly Plant History
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Moscow Mills, Missouri
The Final Years of Daniel Boone
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Troy, Missouri
The Steamboat Far West
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Troy, Missouri
The Naming of Cuivre River
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Silex, Missouri
The Rise of Missouri Rhineland
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Eolia, Missouri
The Griffith-McCune Farmstead Innovation
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Bowling Green, Missouri
Samuel Clemens in Hannibal
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Bowling Green, Missouri
The Legend of Joe Bowers
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Bowling Green, Missouri
The Speaker from Bowling Green
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Frankford, Missouri
The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
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Frankford, Missouri
The First Postmaster of Frankford
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New London, Missouri
Ralls County Courthouse Construction
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New London, Missouri
The Garth Woodside Mansion
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Hannibal, Missouri
Clemens Field's WPA Reconstruction
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.