| EVERETT RUESS
was an sensitive, artistic, adventurous young man who set out alone
several times to experience the beauties, as well as the furies, of
nature in the American West during the 1930s. He met and discussed art with painter Maynard Dixon, and well-known photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Dorothea Lange. • He was lured first by the splendors of Yosemite, the California coast, and later by portions of the lonely red rock lands of Utah and Arizona. In November 1934, at the age of twenty, Everett disappeared from the canyon country near Escalante, Utah, and was never seen again. Although his burros were found near his camp, his fate remains a mystery. MORE >> |
