About Everett Ruess
Everett Ruess was an American artist, poet, and writer. He carried out solo explorations of the High Sierra, the California coast, and the deserts of the American Southwest. In 1934, he disappeared while traveling through a remote area of Utah; his fate remains unknown. Everett took a creative-writing class at Los Angeles High School, and later won a poetry award at Valparaiso High School in Indiana. Ruess was known for making linoleum prints of landscapes and nature, and was associated with Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange.
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