| Description |
1 online resource (279 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; I: Davis Gulch; II: Wanderers; III: The Legacy: 1859-1913; IV: Growing Up: 1914-1929; V: On the Road: 1930; VI: Lan Rameau: 1931; VII: The Misfit: 1932; VIII: The Bohemian: 1933; IX: Vanished: 1934; X: The Search: 1935; XI: Healing: 1936-2008; XII: Resurrection: 2009; Appendix A: Wilderness Song; Appendix B: Father and Son Dialogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, accl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ruess, Everett, 1914-1934.
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Ruess, Everett, 1914-1934. |
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Ruess, Everett, 1914- |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
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20th century |
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Biographies.
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Explorers -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
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Explorers. |
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New Southwest. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fradkin, Philip L. Everett Ruess. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520265424 (DLC) 2011011203 (OCoLC)707486841 |
| ISBN |
9780520949928 (electronic book) |
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0520949927 (electronic book) |
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9780520265424 |
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0520265424 |
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