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Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals

10 best books like Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals (W.L. Rusho): Down the River, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, The Secret Knowledge of Water, The Sound of Mountain Water, Brigham Young: American Moses, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, Where Rivers Change Direction, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)

Down the River
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265630
"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.

Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes...
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...
The Secret Knowledge of Water
AuthorCraig Childs
ISBN0316610690
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
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...
Brigham Young: American Moses
AuthorLeonard J. Arrington
ISBN0252012968
"Brigham Young was the supreme American paradox, not because he contained elements foreign to American soil but because he united them--the business genius of a Rockefeller with the spiritual sensitivities of an Emerson, the lusty enjoyments of the pleasures of good living with the tenderness of...
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....
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0380711109
Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, "River Notes and "Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes . . . and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez...
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
AuthorDonald Worster
ISBN0195078063
When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative...
Where Rivers Change Direction
AuthorMark Spragg
ISBN1573228257
It is a voice that echoes off canyon walls, springs from the rush of rivers, thunders from the hooves of horses. It belongs to award-winner Mark Spragg, and it's as passionate and umcompromising as the wilderness in northwest Wyoming in which he was born: the largest block of unfenced wilderness in...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
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...
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
AuthorDavid Roberts
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large...
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
AuthorMark Fiege
ISBN0295991674
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical...
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
AuthorJared Farmer
ISBN0674027671
Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no "Indian" legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it--once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. "On Zion's Mount" tells the story...
Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild
AuthorChip Brown
ISBN1573223794
An interesting NPR interview with the author led me to this book. It was not as good as the interview itself. In the end this book was killed by the same thing that many books with good writing and a good story are damaged by, I just didn't care.

I felt bad for Guy Watermans kids, thought the wife was...
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...
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