Frank Bures Author Talk

On July 11, 2025, at 6:00 PM, the WCHM will be hosting author Frank Bures on his new book, Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, A Lost History, A Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories.

Bures is an award-winning author, having won “The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022,” Gold Award Feature Story at the MMPA Excellence Awards in 2018, and many others. Pushing the River was released this April, and features a collection of true canoeing stories “as varied as the waters, weather, and rhythms of a canoe trip.” His collection features two kayakers who escaped the 2011 Pagami Creek Fire in the Waters, a supernatural scare in Quetico Provincial Park in the 1970s, and Bures’s experience.

Bures will be discussing his book and the essays and tales within it at the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner, Wisconsin, on July 11 at 6:00 PM. Admission is free. You can buy the book through Northwood Book & Fiber who will be selling the book at the event. We are honored to have both Bures and Northwind present for the event.

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