Death on the Colorado Express: The Glen & Bessie Hyde Mystery
- SIGNED Paperback
- Grand Junction, CO: Cañon Publishers, Ltd, 1997
Grand Junction, CO: Cañon Publishers, Ltd, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED. ix, 188 pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]; illustrated paperback wraps. Black and white photographs, illustrations, and small map printed on page 37. Covers are heavily rubbed, some light soiling to the text block edges, else this is a nice and clean copy. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. Designed by Renate Baars. Printed by Eastwood Printing, Denver, CO.
A speculative account of the saga as compiled from historical documents, Bessie's diary, photos found in her camera, amongst other accounts of the events of this mysterious disappearance. From the copy on the rear cover: "Certainly the most intriguing mystery in Colorado River history is the Glen and Bessie Hyde story. The honeymoon couple left Green River, Utah in a salmon river scow for Bessie to become the first woman in history to run through Cataract, Glen, and Grand Canyons by river. [...] What happened to the couple was a source of continual consternation to river historians until 1971, when "Liz" took a commercial river trip and claimed to be Bessie. She related how she had killed the sonofabitch (Glen), and how she ran to safety and obscurity...
A speculative account of the saga as compiled from historical documents, Bessie's diary, photos found in her camera, amongst other accounts of the events of this mysterious disappearance. From the copy on the rear cover: "Certainly the most intriguing mystery in Colorado River history is the Glen and Bessie Hyde story. The honeymoon couple left Green River, Utah in a salmon river scow for Bessie to become the first woman in history to run through Cataract, Glen, and Grand Canyons by river. [...] What happened to the couple was a source of continual consternation to river historians until 1971, when "Liz" took a commercial river trip and claimed to be Bessie. She related how she had killed the sonofabitch (Glen), and how she ran to safety and obscurity...