Institution: University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library
Collection Title: Everett Ruess Family Papers
Date (inclusive): 1894-2005
Collection Identifier: MS0687
Repository (location info): University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections, Salt Lake City, UT
Finding Aid link: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv89776/op=fstyle.aspx?t=k&q=Ruess
Website link: https://lib.utah.edu/collections/special-collections/index.php
RBMVE Biographical Note: Everett Ruess met the Expedition in his travels in 1934 and joined as a cook. He is remembered as an infamous and mysterious character, having disappeared in the Southwest in late 1934.
Scope and Content: From the summary of the finding aid linked above: “The Everett Ruess family papers (1894-2005) is a collection containing diaries, correspondence, postcards, school work and original writings, and other documents related to Everett Ruess and his family. Everett Ruess was an artist and writer who explored the deserts of the southwest, invariably alone. He was known for cutting linoleum prints of nature and associated with Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange.”
Container List or Summary of RBMVE-related Material:
Box 1: In some of his letters and journal entries in the summer of 1934, Ruess writes about his time with the RBMVE.
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