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March 30, 2026 Frank Bures

How Minnesota Got Wine (University of Minnesota Alumni Magazine)

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

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 Frank Bures

Wicked Minnehaha Documentary (Twin Cities Public Television)

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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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