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Category: Outdoors

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 Frank Bures

Historic Photos from the Canoe Races on the Mississippi River

November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 Frank Bures

On the Allure of Fire (Minnesota Conservation Volunteer)

October 13, 2025 Frank Bures

Minnesota Historical Society talk on Pushing the River

August 8, 2025 Frank Bures

Vistabule Teardrop Trailers (Wildsam Magazine)

July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Frank Bures

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

July 18, 2025 Frank Bures

David Roche and the High Carb Revolution (Men’s Health)

July 8, 2025July 2, 2025 Frank Bures

Guinness Grudge Match

July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 Frank Bures

New North Magazine Out: Summer 2025, featuring Ojibwe artist Star WallowingBull

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 Frank Bures

Pushing the River Podcasts & Interviews

June 27, 2025June 17, 2025 Frank Bures

Mississippi River Gorge Roundup (MCV, Minnesota Monthly and FKP)

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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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  • True Story: The Night at Sturgeon Narrows
  • Dark Shamans, Stolen Bones and a Deadly Obsession: One Anthropologist's Fateful Search for the Secrets of Kanaima (Outside Magazine)
  • The Bridge of the Horns
  • How To Be Wise
  • Hope in Small Things: An Interview with the late Binyavanga Wainaina (Tin House)
  • Close Call: How Canoeist Frank Bures Survived An Early-Season Capsize (Paddling Magazine)
  • Mad About Bikes (Madison Magazine)
  • Outdoor Retailer Recap
  • Best Book of the Year, 2011

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