Bibliography
Everett Ruess in writing, film, theater, music and more
BOOKS ABOUT EVERETT
On Desert Trails, 1940, re-published 1950
Randall Henderson, Desert Magazine
Vagabond for Beauty, 1983, W.L. Rusho, Gibbs Smith, Inc.
Sandstone Sunsets, 1997, Mark A. Taylor, Gibbs Smith, Inc.
The Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess, 1998, Everett Ruess
with W.L. Rusho, Gibbs Smith, Inc.
Combination Edition - Vagabond for Beauty and The Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess, 2002, Everett Ruess with W.L. Rusho,
Gibbs Smith, Inc.
The Mystery of Everett Ruess, 2010, W.L. Rusho, Gibbs Smith, Inc.
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer, 2011, David Roberts, Broadway Books
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife, 2011, Philip L. Fradkin, University of California Press
Pledge to the Wind, The Legend of Everett Ruess, 2014, Wayward Publishing
Vagabond for Beauty, 2021, W.L. Rusho, John Murray Press (Re-published UK version)
BOOKS IN WHICH EVERETT IS INCLUDED
Desert Solitaire, 1988, Edward Abbey, University of Arizona Press
Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest, 1999, Alex Shoumatoff, Alfred A. Knopf Publisher
Mormon Country, 2003, Wallace Stegner, Menasha Ridge Press
To Die in Kanab, 2016, Jared Buck, Cedar Fort Press
Into the Wild, 2007, Jon Krakauer, Anchor
Vanished!: Explorers Forever Lost, 2007, Evan L. Van Balkan, Menasha Ridge Press
Desert Rats, Adventure in the American Outback, 2010, Chinle Miller, Yellow Cat Publishing
The Disappearances: A Story of Exploration, Murder, and Mystery in the American West, 2016, Scott Thybony, University of Utah Press
The Mystical Pursuits - Tragedy & Transcendence - A Sedona Expose Oracles Witches and Everett Ruess Paperback, 2017, Public Land Library Press
Cold Case Chronicles: Mysteries, Murders & the Missing, 2021, Sylvia Pettem, Lyons Press
DOCUMENTARIES / FILMS
Lost Forever staring Mark Larsen, Diane Orr, 2000, Beecher Films — Docudrama
Everett Ruess, Wilderness Song produced by Jonathon Demme, 2011, Lindsay Jaeger, Way of the West Productions — Film / Documentary
Nemo 1934, 2012, Corey Robinson — Historical Documentary
La Disparition d'Everett Ruess - une histoire américaine (The Disappearance of Everett Ruess, an American story), 2018, Emmanuel Tellier — Film / Documentary from a French point of view.
>> poster image to the right
SONGS
Everett Ruess by The Petals, 1994, November Rain Records
Everett Ruess by David Alvin, 2004, Yep Rock Records
Everett Ruess by Dana Robinson, 2008, It's About Music
Wilderness Song, an album of 15 songs using the prose of Everett Ruess, For the film soundtrack of "Everett Ruess, Wilderness Song"
by Dan Bern, 2012, DBHQ Records
The Wild Escalante (Ballad of Everett Ruess) by Walkin' Jim Stoltz
from the album A Little Piece of Time
PLAYS
The End of the Horizon, 2008, Debora Threedy, Plan B Theatre Company >> Image to the right
La Disparition d'Everett Ruess - une histoire américaine (The Disappearance of Everett Ruess, an American story), 2017, Emmanuel Tellie
PREHISTORIC CREATURES
Seitaad Ruessi, Discovered 2010
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