There’s nothing like an unsolved disappearance to create an enduring cult hero. Maybe that’s why Amelia Earhart and Grand Canyon honeymooners Bessie and Glen Hyde refuse to stay buried in the annals ...

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A new documentary on Everett Ruess is out, the latest manifestation of an ongoing cultural obsession with the young artist who vanished in the desert Southwest nearly 80 years ago. Filmmaker Corey ...

A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic tests that seemed to have solved an enduring mystery, his ...

In 1930, Everett Ruess, age 16, began a series of solitary wanderings across the Southwest, hiking throughout the mesas and canyons, a landscape that left him, as he himself wrote, “roaring drunk with ...

SALT LAKE CITY ” A skeleton found in Utah’s redrock country was that of a talented artist, poet and wanderer of the 1930s whose disappearance became the stuff of Western lore and Navajo legend, ...

Exploring the Southwest on foot and with burros in the early 1930s, 20-year-old vagabond artist Everett Ruess wrote, “I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness . ... I’ll never stop ...

Everett Ruess could have been one of this country's greatest wilderness writers, a poet and author on a par with John Muir or Edward Abbey. But we'll never know for sure, because Ruess disappeared ...

Jeff Glor talks to David Roberts about "Finding Everett Ruess," the enthralling biography of an American explorer who vanished more than 75 years ago, but still inspires a cult following today. David ...

It was a chilly day in November 1934. The country had been mired in the Great Depression for over five years, and no town felt the pinch of poverty more acutely than Escalante. Founded by Mormon ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic tests that seemed to have solved an ...

SALT LAKE CITY – A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic tests that seemed to have solved an ...