{"product_id":"the-legend-of-everett-ruess-pledge-to-the-wind-9780991118335","title":"The Legend of Everett Ruess: Pledge to the Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Legend of Everett Ruess\u003c\/em\u003e follows the adventures of the young vagabond as he roamed the southwest in the early thirties.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this compelling narrative, Robert Louis DeMayo has taken journal excerpts, poems, and letters Everett sent to family and friends and turned them into historical fiction. Through this recreation of Everett's travels, we are given rare glimpses of the young artist as he traveled the southwest-much of which was still an unexplored wilderness in the 1930s. Everett traveled alone, accompanied only by a dog named Curly, but he often stayed with Navajo or Hopi. Using only burros or horses Everett explored much of Utah and Arizona, covering about twenty miles a day. He crossed the Grand Canyon regularly. The Navajo and Hopi that came across him miles from any road thought he was a mystic and called him Picture Man. They allowed him to witness-and participate in-ceremonies that today are mostly off-limits to non-Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis letters about these experiences, flushed out in this story, show just how unique his time in the southwest was. In his last letter to his brother, Waldo, he wrote, \"As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead more keenly all the time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Louis Demayo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayward Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780991118335","brand":"Wayward Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40536450138227,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":20.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_75c21b35-ba1e-4085-99f6-9a53dc37a825.jpg?v=1666617012","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-legend-of-everett-ruess-pledge-to-the-wind-9780991118335","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}