On Desert Trails With Everett Ruess (by Gary James Bergera, Editor, Afterword, W.L Rusho, Editor), is a collection of Ruess’ letters,
diary entries, poems, watercolors, and ink prints.
Ruess had a strong urge to leave civilization, and from the age
of 17 until his disappearance at 20, he spent much of his time wandering
southern Utah, northern Arizona, and western Colorado. He wrote passionately about his
experiences. In 1934 he set off in Davis
Gulch, in the Escalante region of southern Utah, the last area of America to be
mapped, and disappeared.
His parents kept alive his memory, and this book, and its predecessors,
initiated his legend and myth. The fact
that he vanished with very little evidence of his ultimate fate adds an aura
of charmed mystery to his story; it punctuates his young and expressive life
with pathos and glory.
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