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Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

10 best books like Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty (W.L. Rusho): Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, In Search of the Old Ones, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, Going Back to Bisbee, Wilderness and the American Mind, Walking with Spring: The Story That Inspired Thousands of Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers, The Sound of Mountain Water, Everest: The West Ridge, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, The Land of Little Rain

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0375725180
The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country...
In Search of the Old Ones
AuthorDavid Roberts
ISBN0684832127
David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century,...
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
AuthorAmy Irvine
ISBN0865477035
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was...
Going Back to Bisbee
AuthorRichard Shelton
ISBN0816512892
One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region and upon his discharge found a job as a schoolteacher...
Wilderness and the American Mind
AuthorRoderick Nash
ISBN0300091222
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included...
Walking with Spring: The Story That Inspired Thousands of Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers
AuthorEarl V. Shaffer
ISBN0917953843
In April 1948, the 11-year-old Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia was pretty much a wreck: Volunteer maintainers who hadn't been called to combat couldn't get rationed gasoline to get out there to keep it clear. In April 1948, so, pretty much, was Earl Shaffer, self-dubbed The Crazy One. He had...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
Everest: The West Ridge
AuthorThomas F. Hornbein
ISBN0898866162
The first successful summit attempts of Mt. Everest occurred in the mid 20th century. Of course the first, and most historical, was achieved in 1953 by a British expedition when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to stand on the top of the world. Their route was up the southeast ridge,...
Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0910055998
When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock....
The Land of Little Rain
AuthorMary Hunter Austin
ISBN0140249192
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders...
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0030693012
Outstanding fare from one of the modern age's greatest scribes on the American West. I snuck a peak at Wikipedia and agree with Larry McMurty's depiction of him as the "Thoreau of the American West". Having read Abbey's earlier pro-environmental novels ("The Monkey Wrench Gang", "Hayduke Lives")...
The Book of Yaak
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0395877466
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, marten, fisher, elk, and even a handful of humans. It is a land of magic, but its magic may not be enough to save...
Danger on Peaks: Poems
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN1593760809
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, bioregional activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru, Gary Snyder has been a major artistic force in America for over five decades, extending far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye.

Danger on Peaks begins...
The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
AuthorEllen Meloy
ISBN0816521530
In this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a land of absolutes, of passion and indifference, lush textures and inscrutable tensions. Here violence...
The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers
AuthorRobinson Jeffers
ISBN0804745927
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers's work for the general reader and for students in courses...
The Journal, 1837-1861
AuthorHenry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving...
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