| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages : illustrations, maps) |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1: The desire to live. "I have given the wind my pledge" ; "I have been one who loved the wilderness" ; "The crazy man is in solitude again" ; "I go to make my destiny" ; "I have seen more beauty than I can bear" -- Pt. 2: Say that I kept my dream. Nemo ; Desert trails ; Cult and conundrum ; "No least desire for fame" -- Pt. 3: What Aneth saw. Jackass Bar ; Comb Ridge -- Epilogue: Happy journeys. |
| Summary |
Traces the life of the early twentieth-century adventurer, writer, and watercolor artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest, and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country. |
| Subject |
Ruess, Everett, 1914-
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roberts, David, 1943- Finding Everett Ruess. New York : Broadway Books, c2011 9780307591760 (DLC) 2011008379 (OCoLC)706677590 |
| ISBN |
9780307591784 (electronic bk.) |
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0307591786 (electronic bk.) |
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