The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde: Part 6 of 14
They say we got as far as mile 225 because that’s where they found our boat. It was shored securely at the crude mile marker. They assume we made camp and I stabbed Glen to death and ran away, never to...
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I had never seen an underwater cave in the Ohio River. I explored that area far more than any child should have and certainly more than my mother was comfortable with, but I never found anything like...
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I never slaughtered an animal. I lived such a sheltered life that I never had to kill my own food. In fact, the only blood I had ever seen was my own, thick and clotted every month. I never expected it...
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Glen stopped me from plunging Ralph Cameron’s own knife into his belly and throat, urging us to leave this ill-fated mine. Rosie was weeping and terrified at her dead mother’s body, trying to awaken...
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I’d like to say that I lovingly buried Glen in a marked grave somewhere I could revisit. I wish I could say that I even knew WHERE we left his body, but there wasn’t even time to cut a mark in a tree....
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“My name’s Georgie White. This here’s Rosie. You got any work?” The ruddy skin of the woman considered the two of us. “You look like one’a Cameron’s girls. Don’t want no trouble from ‘im.” She closed...
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When were unable to find Rosie’s family, I was tempted to go back to West Virginia and my beloved Ohio River, but returning to my family would have been a mistake. I had killed a man. The papers...
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When I read that Cameron had died in the newspaper, I felt a wave of relief. My parents had passed the previous year, never knowing that I was alive. I had send them a letter from the Grand Canyon...
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When I found myself back in the Grand Canyon, scouring the edges of the Colorado River for the point on the planet when I lost my true love, my vision from so long ago returned to me. Glen was long ago...
View ArticleThe Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde: The Truth and Fiction
I first heard about Glen and Bessie Hyde while watching the Ken Burns PBS Special, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” I loved that series so much that I bought it at Amazon: Ken Burns: National...
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