Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
- ISBN-10
- 0520265424
- ISBN-13
- 9780520265424
- Series
- Everett Ruess
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-02
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Philip L. Fradkin
Description
Follows the story of Everett Ruess, a naturalist and artist of the early twentieth century whose disappearance sparked a myth of a romantic desert wanderer.
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