Everett Ruess, bold adventurer, artist, writer. He traded prints with Ansel Adams, studied and lived with Edward Weston, Maynard Dixon, and Dorothea Lange. Then tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest, pursuing his dream of ultimate beauty and oneness with nature. Then in November of 1934, at the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert.