Item Detail
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30990
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English
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The Disappearance of Everett Ruess and the Discovery of Utah’s Red Rock Country
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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24-44
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"On November 11, 1934, a young man wandered into the wild country near Escalante, Utah, and promptly vanished—presumably meeting his death, either by accident or foul play. Such events, while perhaps less common in the 1930s, are not that unusual. A 2005 New York Times article, using a phrase from park workers, described what they called “the disappearance season,” when young men (and it is almost always young men) venture out into wilderness areas on their own, without leaving any itinerary, and disappear. Sometimes their bodies are later found by search and rescue teams dispatched by concerned friends or relatives; often they simply vanish without a trace. Jon Krakauer’s best selling book, Into the Wild, recounts the final trek of one such young man, Christopher McCandless, who ended up starving to death in the wilderness of Alaska." [Author]