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The Kid Who Rode Into the Canyonlands and Never Came Back

By Rachel Hartigan · National Geographic · October 2026

The Kid Who Rode Into the Canyonlands and Never Came Back

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"Everett Ruess, a vagabond young artist and friend of Dorothea Lange, loved America's wildest vistas. Then he vanished into them forever."

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