“Glen and Bessie Hyde
were newlyweds who disappeared while attempting to run the rapids of the
Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona in 1928. Had they succeeded, Bessie would have been
the first documented woman in history to do so.”(Wikipedia)
Glen Rollin Hyde was born on December 9, 1898 in Twin Falls,
Idaho. He was a farmer and on occasions would
go river rafting on the Salmon and Snake Rivers in Idaho. While traveling on a passenger ship to
California in 1927, he met Bessie.
Bessie Louise Haley was born on December 29, 1905 in West Virginia. She was an art student, worked in a bookstore
and loved to write poetry. When they met,
Bessie was still married to her first husband.
The day after her divorce was final, April 12, 1928, the two got
married.
Even though Bessie had never done any river rafting and Glen
was a semi-pro at it, he wanted them to spend their honeymoon traveling down
the Colorado River inside the Grand Canyon in his homemade twenty foot wooden racing
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ReplyDeleteThat photo is outstanding! Is that a house you have visited?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link! I'll have to see what Wisconsin has to offer as far as haunted houses...
I don't know where that house is located. I would love to find and explore it.
ReplyDeleteThat's one creepy looking house! A set for a horror movie if ever I saw one!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a photo I took of a house near where I used to live in Hunterdon County, NJ not Arizona. Looks a lot more like this now http://www.pbase.com/lecook/image/27276288
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