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Category: Pushing the River

October 13, 2025 Frank Bures

Minnesota Historical Society talk on Pushing the River

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)

June 24, 2025June 17, 2025 Frank Bures

Pushing the River Coverage

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 Frank Bures

The Best Nonfiction: The Electric Typewriter

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 Frank Bures

Cover Story: The Story Behind the Photo of the 1947 Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby

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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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  • 9,000 miles. Nearly three years. Mainly, by canoe.
  • The Marfa Mystery Lights (Texas Journey Magazine)
  • Hope in Small Things: An Interview with the late Binyavanga Wainaina (Tin House)
  • Pushing the River Coverage
  • The Best Nonfiction: The Electric Typewriter
  • David Roche and the High Carb Revolution (Men's Health)
  • Back from Uganda
  • On the Allure of Fire (Minnesota Conservation Volunteer)
  • All Along the Watchtower, or The End of the World As We Know It
  • Minnesota Ice

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