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Category: Canoeing

July 21, 2026 Frank Bures

New Missouri River Speed Record

April 23, 2026 Frank Bures

Close Call: How Canoeist Frank Bures Survived An Early-Season Capsize (Paddling Magazine)

March 20, 2026March 23, 2026 Frank Bures

Paddling the Far North

March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 Frank Bures

The Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby (Mnopedia)

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 Frank Bures

Historic Photos from the Canoe Races on the Mississippi River

October 13, 2025 Frank Bures

Minnesota Historical Society talk on Pushing the River

August 26, 2025 Frank Bures

Mississippi Speed Record Documentary

July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Frank Bures

Getting really, really far away from it all: Remote Camping (Explore Minnesota)

July 8, 2025July 2, 2025 Frank Bures

Guinness Grudge Match

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 Frank Bures

Pushing the River Podcasts & Interviews

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Frank Bures is the author of "Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories," "The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes," and the editor of "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology." He writes about culture, travel, science, outdoors, narrative and belief.

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