The Steamboat Natchez offers an authentic glimpse into New Orleans' rich maritime heritage, cruising along the mighty ...

Its setting and plot, about generations of performers from a family that runs a Mississippi River show boat, lent itself to musical theater, he thought. And, as he told Hammerstein, it had “a mi ...

Crews were out on the Mississippi ... on board the boat were safely brought ashore by the marine rescue task force. The salvage company says the boat hit a wing dam in the river.