Sunk Without a Sound : The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde
Combine the wild Colorado River, an adventuresome young couple, and their unexplained disappearance; add an anguished father; pile on rumor and speculation lasting 73 years; and then cap the story with meticulous research, and you have all the ingredients of a compelling mystery. Dimock, a white-water guide and one of the authors of the National Outdoor Book Award-winning The Doing of the Thing, has all the right credentials to investigate the disastrous honeymoon journey of Glen and Bessie Hyde through the Grand Canyon on an unwieldy Idaho sweep scow. Soon after the couple's disappearance in November 1928, Glen's father instigated an extensive search that lasted several months. Only the scow was recovered, fully loaded in calm water. Through the years, a woman claiming to be Bessie surfaced, a skeleton reputed to be Glen's was discovered in a shed at the canyon's southern rim, and the TV program Unsolved Mysteries featured the story in 1985. Dimock here provides a thorough history of Glen's and Bessie's backgrounds and even re-creates part of the Hydes' river route with his own wife in a homemade scow. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, this informative account is highly recommended for most public libraries and academic libraries in the region. Janet Ross, Sparks Branch Lib., NVCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.