Archive for: Osage River

Rock Climbing: Overall Body Fitness

Rock Climbing: Overall Body Fitness

Remember the monkey bars on the elementary playground? Whether it’s the image of a dome-shaped steel cage, or a memory of the horizontal ladder suspended just...

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A Series of (Un)fortunate Events: A Piece of Lake Ozark History

A Series of (Un)fortunate Events: A Piece of Lake Ozark History

A dam, a railroad and a farmer Bill was a typical hard-working Osage River farmer. The railroad was expanding up the Osage River and they approached Bill for permission...

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Bagnell Dam, It Almost Never Happened

Bagnell Dam, It Almost Never Happened

At 5:00 clock in the morning, the restless jostling under the old log house floor was loud and annoying. Every bump on the floor joists below was followed by grunts...

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