Sunk Without a Sound
Subtitle: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde
Edition: 1ST edition
Publisher: Fretwater Press
Published: February 21, 2001
Place of publication: United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781892327987
Subjects: Sports & Recreation; United States - State & Local - General; Special Interest - Adventure; Hyde, Bessie; True Crime / Espionage; United States - Mountain - Arizona; Sports; Murder - General; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); History; Boating - General; Boating accidents; Hyde, Glen
First sentence: Theaved on the twenty-foot sweep oar again and again and again.
Description: Glen and Bessie Hyde began their honeymoon trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers on October 20, 1928. A month later they hiked to the rim of the Grand Canyon resupplied, and returned to their boat. When they did not arrive at trip's end, Glen's father launched an exhaustive search of lower Grand Canyon. They Hydes' crude Idaho sweep scow was found in calm water, fully loaded. But Glen and Bessie had vanished without a trace. So began the greatest mystery in the annals of whitewater navigation. More than 40 years later, in 1971, an older woman on a Grand Canyon river trip announced she was Bessie Hyde. She said she had stabbed Gen, hiked out, and started life anew. In 1976 a skeleton thought to be Glen Hyde's was found at the canyon rim with a bullet in the skull. Since then, another suspected Glen and another Bessie appeared, further convoluting the myth of the Hydes. Author and boatman Brad Dimock searched the country for the true story of the Hydes. He followed each story and obscure lead to its end, even going to the extreme of recreating the Hydes' archaic craft for a harrowing trip though Grand Canyon with his own bride.