In 1934, At Age 20, Everett Ruess Disappeared In The Vast Canyonlands Of Arizona And Utah, But His Legend Lives On. By Leo W. Banks HE WAS LAST seen in November 1934 by a sheepherder near Davis Canyon, in southeastern Utah. But he cannot be proclaimed dead. Evidence of him keeps surfacing. He is a Western myth now, a Kerouac of the canyonlands, embodiment of the romantic ideal of finding beauty ...