Everett Ruess : his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife / Philip L. Fradkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fradkin, Philip L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruess, Everett, 1914-1934.

Ruess, Everett.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Explorers--Southwest, New--Biography.

Explorers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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, acclaimed environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of Ruess's short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist's astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278296

9781283278294

1283278294

9780520949928

0520949927

OCLC:

739049463