Wednesday Jun 24 | Salt Lake Tribune
DNA comparison proves bones are those of artist who disappeared 75 years ago
A team of geneticists at the University of Colorado in Boulder this year compared 600,000 genetic markers to prove that a pile of bones found in a small crevice near Comb Ridge in southeast Utah belonged to artist and romantic vagabond Everett Ruess.
Everett Ruess: Lost and found in the Desert Southwest
Exploring the Southwest on foot and with burros in the early 1930s, 20-year-old vagabond artist Everett Ruess wrote, "I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness .
Cleanup at Aneth plant causes Navajo dustup
An asbestos cleanup at the old Aneth Gas Plant has southeastern Utah Navajos worried and angry at their tribal government.
Where in the wilderness is Everett Ruess? A 75-year-old mystery solved at last?
He was a 20-year-old California native whose love for Utah's redrock country, longing for solitude and vivid prose fueled the imaginations of environmentalists, artists and writers from Wallace Stegner to Jon Krakauer.
Navajo Nation Council Delegates Kenneth Maryboy and Davis Filfred attended the Indian Caucus Day at the Utah State Capitol to advocate on behalf of Navajo constituents living in the state of Utah recently.
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