Everett Ruess was a sensitive, artistic,
adventurous young man who set out alone several times to experience
the beauties, as well as the furies, of nature in the American West. During the 1930s, he met and discussed art with painter Maynard
Dixon, and well-known photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston,
and Dorothea Lange. He was lured first by the splendors of Yosemite,
the California coast, and later by portions of the lonely red rock
lands of Utah and Arizona.
In November 1934, at the age of twenty, Everett disappeared from
the canyon country near Escalante, Utah, and was never seen again.
Although his burros were found near his camp, his fate remains a
mystery. Everett left behind a remarkable collection of letters, essays,
and poems in which he revealed himself to be artistically moved
by the glorious, ever changing panoramas of the wilderness. >
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