Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess

The Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of the young vagabond as he roamed the southwest in the early thirties.

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 explored the southwest. Everett traveled alone, accompanied only by a dog named Curly and a couple of burros, but he often stayed with Navajo or Hopi. His letters about these experiences, flushed out in this story, show just how unique his time in the southwest was. Upon reading it, Brian Ruess wrote, "In this work of fiction ... I saw Everett for the first time, as he might actually have been."