Everett Ruess carried out solo explorations of the High Sierra, the California coast, and the deserts of the American Southwest.
15 Facts About Everett Ruess
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Everett Ruess was the younger of two sons of Stella and Christopher Ruess.
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Everett Ruess took a creative-writing class at Los Angeles High School, and later won a poetry award at Valparaiso High School in Indiana.
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Everett Ruess rode broncos, branded calves, and investigated cliff dwellings.
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Everett Ruess explored Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, as well as the High Sierra in the summers of 1930 and 1933.
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Everett Ruess had limited success trading his prints and watercolors to pay his way, and primarily relied on his parents' support.
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On November 20,1934, Everett Ruess set out alone into the Utah desert, taking two donkeys as pack animals.
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Everett Ruess' donkeys were found near the north side of Davis Gulch, a canyon of the Escalante River.
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The only sign of Everett Ruess himself was a corral he had made at his campsite in Davis Gulch, as well as an inscription the search party found nearby, with the words "NEMO 1934".
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An elderly Navajo claimed that Everett Ruess was murdered by two Ute men who wanted his donkeys.
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Everett Ruess was known for making linoleum prints of landscapes and nature, and was associated with Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange.
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Everett Ruess's prints show scenes from the Monterey Bay coast, the northern California coast near Tomales Bay, the Sierra Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
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Everett Ruess wrote no books during his life, but he was a lifelong diarist, and sent home hundreds of letters.
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Everett Ruess is mentioned in Edward Abbey's 1968 book Desert Solitaire.
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Everett Ruess disappeared before his last letters could be sent from Escalante and his 1934 diary was never found.