His camp was discovered soon after,
with the animals were in good health, but Ruess was never seen again.
For three years, Ruess explored the American West,
learning Navajo and writing letters about the beauty of the unexplored country.
Jon Krakauer chronicled Ruess's journeys in his 1994 book, Into The Wild, along with those of another wanderer, Chris McCandless.
In 1931, an American teenager named Everett Ruess set off on a donkey through the wild country of Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, looking to eschew society and commune with nature.