Well, it appears one of the oldest vagabonding mysteries of all time has finally been solved.
Bones found in a crevice on Comb Ridge in SE Utah have been positively identified as Everett Ruess, the vagabond cowboy/poet/artist who disappeared in 1934.
Quite a stunning development!
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com ... berts-text
Everett Ruess Found!
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Everett Ruess Found!
by Lightfoot » May 1st, 2009, 12:55 pm
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by Evs » May 1st, 2009, 8:10 pm
Such an interesting character. Probably not the sort of fellow who'd watch Sean Penn movies or join hitchhiking websites. What a different breed of tough men existed only a few generations ago. And such a terrible way to go. If he were still around I'd like to pick his brain. Hooray for DNA and forensic analysis!
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by LongWalker » May 1st, 2009, 10:25 pm
[quote:823838f109="Evs"]Such an interesting character. Probably not the sort of fellow who'd watch Sean Penn movies or join hitchhiking websites. What a different breed of tough men existed only a few generations ago. And such a terrible way to go. If he were still around I'd like to pick his brain. Hooray for DNA and forensic analysis![/quote:823838f109]
I'll have to disagree. Not the Sean Penn part I don't know who that is. But rather the digihitch part. Back in the 30s it was easier to travel around with a burro and a gun (don't try that crap now). So he would have been a hitch hiker . He used the postal service (state of the art in the 30s) so it's an easy update to our modern marvel the internet. Tada new member.
Great article Lightfoot thanks. His story would make a better movie than into the wildWho knows me and this fellow Everett Ruess might have traveled down the same section of the triple 6. (you youngsters will have to google highway 666) Lucky someone buried him. Most remains get scattered out in that country.
I'll have to disagree. Not the Sean Penn part I don't know who that is. But rather the digihitch part. Back in the 30s it was easier to travel around with a burro and a gun (don't try that crap now). So he would have been a hitch hiker . He used the postal service (state of the art in the 30s) so it's an easy update to our modern marvel the internet. Tada new member.
Great article Lightfoot thanks. His story would make a better movie than into the wildWho knows me and this fellow Everett Ruess might have traveled down the same section of the triple 6. (you youngsters will have to google highway 666) Lucky someone buried him. Most remains get scattered out in that country.
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by Evs » May 2nd, 2009, 12:44 am
[quote:d8b8b462bd="LongWalker"][quote:d8b8b462bd="Evs"]Such an interesting character. Probably not the sort of fellow who'd watch Sean Penn movies or join hitchhiking websites. What a different breed of tough men existed only a few generations ago. And such a terrible way to go. If he were still around I'd like to pick his brain. Hooray for DNA and forensic analysis![/quote:d8b8b462bd]
I'll have to disagree. Not the Sean Penn part I don't know who that is. But rather the digihitch part. Back in the 30s it was easier to travel around with a burro and a gun (don't try that crap now). So he would have been a hitch hiker . He used the postal service (state of the art in the 30s) so it's an easy update to our modern marvel the internet. Tada new member.
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Hey LongWalker,
I meant no offense or disrespect. In a moment of jaded weakness I simply envisioned disenfranchised kids yawping their plans to follow in the footsteps of another "McCandless type", yada yada ad nauseum. I didn't mean to bring down the thread. Of course it's a great article, and I'm not surprised that Lightfoot is the OP. Cheers!
I'll have to disagree. Not the Sean Penn part I don't know who that is. But rather the digihitch part. Back in the 30s it was easier to travel around with a burro and a gun (don't try that crap now). So he would have been a hitch hiker . He used the postal service (state of the art in the 30s) so it's an easy update to our modern marvel the internet. Tada new member.
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Hey LongWalker,
I meant no offense or disrespect. In a moment of jaded weakness I simply envisioned disenfranchised kids yawping their plans to follow in the footsteps of another "McCandless type", yada yada ad nauseum. I didn't mean to bring down the thread. Of course it's a great article, and I'm not surprised that Lightfoot is the OP. Cheers!
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by Lightfoot » May 2nd, 2009, 11:11 am
I'm happy no one has tried to turn Everett Ruess into the next Chris McCandless. We don't need to see one of the Jonas brothers in his first acting role trying to be the MTV/emo version of Everett Ruess.
Hopefully Sean Penn is done damaging and making things up about other people's legacies in the name of making millions of dollars.
The concern, of course, it that digihitch will have a bunch of mentally unstable people immediately plotting to ride burros out of Davis Gulch.
It's been one of the oldest mysteries in vagabonding history. Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937. George Mallory's body was on Mt. Everest from 1924--1999, about the same time Ruess was missing.
I wonder if Everett Ruess's killers will ever be identified. Just as the story of his body being known to that Navajo family for many generations, it must be possible there is a family somewhere in SE Utah that knows a dark secret.
Some Everett Ruess poems can be found here:
http://everettruess.net/poetry.html
Hopefully Sean Penn is done damaging and making things up about other people's legacies in the name of making millions of dollars.
The concern, of course, it that digihitch will have a bunch of mentally unstable people immediately plotting to ride burros out of Davis Gulch.
It's been one of the oldest mysteries in vagabonding history. Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937. George Mallory's body was on Mt. Everest from 1924--1999, about the same time Ruess was missing.
I wonder if Everett Ruess's killers will ever be identified. Just as the story of his body being known to that Navajo family for many generations, it must be possible there is a family somewhere in SE Utah that knows a dark secret.
Some Everett Ruess poems can be found here:
http://everettruess.net/poetry.html
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by Rafael » May 2nd, 2009, 1:00 pm
[quote:a047a3c642="Lightfoot"]I'm happy no one has tried to turn Everett Ruess into the next Chris McCandless. We don't need to see one of the Jonas brothers in his first acting role trying to be the MTV/emo version of Everett Ruess.
Hopefully Sean Penn is done damaging and making things up about other people's legacies in the name of making millions of dollars.
The concern, of course, it that digihitch will have a bunch of mentally unstable people immediately plotting to ride burros out of Davis Gulch.
It's been one of the oldest mysteries in vagabonding history. Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937. George Mallory's body was on Mt. Everest from 1924--1999, about the same time Ruess was missing.
I wonder if Everett Ruess's killers will ever be identified. Just as the story of his body being known to that Navajo family for many generations, it must be possible there is a family somewhere in SE Utah that knows a dark secret.
Some Everett Ruess poems can be found here:
http://everettruess.net/poetry.html[/quote:a047a3c642]
haha yeah that would be terrible. I was always dreaming of vagabonding when i was young and just by chance i came of age/decided to do it right around the same time as into the wild came out i theaters! it always annoyed me so much when i was first packing around Ca headed out to AK and every damn person i meet would say " Like Chris Mccandless?" NO! Damn it!...ive still never seen the movie...
Hopefully Sean Penn is done damaging and making things up about other people's legacies in the name of making millions of dollars.
The concern, of course, it that digihitch will have a bunch of mentally unstable people immediately plotting to ride burros out of Davis Gulch.
It's been one of the oldest mysteries in vagabonding history. Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937. George Mallory's body was on Mt. Everest from 1924--1999, about the same time Ruess was missing.
I wonder if Everett Ruess's killers will ever be identified. Just as the story of his body being known to that Navajo family for many generations, it must be possible there is a family somewhere in SE Utah that knows a dark secret.
Some Everett Ruess poems can be found here:
http://everettruess.net/poetry.html[/quote:a047a3c642]
haha yeah that would be terrible. I was always dreaming of vagabonding when i was young and just by chance i came of age/decided to do it right around the same time as into the wild came out i theaters! it always annoyed me so much when i was first packing around Ca headed out to AK and every damn person i meet would say " Like Chris Mccandless?" NO! Damn it!...ive still never seen the movie...
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by Lightfoot » May 3rd, 2009, 1:12 pm
Having hitched out of Escalante, Bluff, Blanding, Monticello, Mexican Hat, Kayenta, Tuba City ... I take solace in the fact Everett Ruess' spirits were shining down on me from atop Comb Ridge.
I do think it's unfortunate his remains can't be permanently interred up there.
After all, throwing Everett Ruess's ashes in the ocean off Santa Barbara makes as much sense as scattering Jacques Cousteau's ashes in the middle of the Kalahari Desert.
From Comb Ridge, Everett Ruess was looking down on the Navajo Nation to the south, Monument Valley to the southwest, Canyonlands, the LaSal Mountains, and Abajo Mountains to the north, and the canyons of the Escalante and Colorado rivers to the northeast.
Something tells me Everett Ruess would have been OK with that!
I do think it's unfortunate his remains can't be permanently interred up there.
After all, throwing Everett Ruess's ashes in the ocean off Santa Barbara makes as much sense as scattering Jacques Cousteau's ashes in the middle of the Kalahari Desert.
From Comb Ridge, Everett Ruess was looking down on the Navajo Nation to the south, Monument Valley to the southwest, Canyonlands, the LaSal Mountains, and Abajo Mountains to the north, and the canyons of the Escalante and Colorado rivers to the northeast.
Something tells me Everett Ruess would have been OK with that!
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by manmouse » May 3rd, 2009, 6:43 pm
[quote:5137534df2="Lightfoot"]Having hitched out of Escalante, Bluff, Blanding, Monticello, Mexican Hat, Kayenta, Tuba City ... I take solace in the fact Everett Ruess' spirits were shining down on me from atop Comb Ridge.
I do think it's unfortunate his remains can't be permanently interred up there.
After all, throwing Everett Ruess's ashes in the ocean off Santa Barbara makes as much sense as scattering Jacques Cousteau's ashes in the middle of the Kalahari Desert.
From Comb Ridge, Everett Ruess was looking down on the Navajo Nation to the south, Monument Valley to the southwest, Canyonlands, the LaSal Mountains, and Abajo Mountains to the north, and the canyons of the Escalante and Colorado rivers to the northeast.
Something tells me Everett Ruess would have been OK with that![/quote:5137534df2]
then again, from a different perspective, you could say that it doesn't matter where you put a vagabond's ashes/body, because her/his spirit is still roaming all over the place.
I do think it's unfortunate his remains can't be permanently interred up there.
After all, throwing Everett Ruess's ashes in the ocean off Santa Barbara makes as much sense as scattering Jacques Cousteau's ashes in the middle of the Kalahari Desert.
From Comb Ridge, Everett Ruess was looking down on the Navajo Nation to the south, Monument Valley to the southwest, Canyonlands, the LaSal Mountains, and Abajo Mountains to the north, and the canyons of the Escalante and Colorado rivers to the northeast.
Something tells me Everett Ruess would have been OK with that![/quote:5137534df2]
then again, from a different perspective, you could say that it doesn't matter where you put a vagabond's ashes/body, because her/his spirit is still roaming all over the place.
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