For ages Everett Ruess was a campfire story, the student of Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange who left the populated west and travelled alone through the Four-Corners Canyonland area, until he disappeared without a trace. W. L. Rusho has collected and edited Ruess' correspondence with his family into an account of the young man's search for beauty, and appended a short narration of the search for Everett Ruess. Vagabond for Beauty relates the joy of an uninhibited adventurous mind exploring some of America's most glorious lands.