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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune Rapid Named After Pioneer Of White Water remains. something of a mys- discounted by several associ- ates,there is a faction offriends whoare puzzled by connections that suggest Clark was in fact Bessie Hyde, who vanished in 1928 along with her husband, Glen Hyde, while the Idaho couple were on a honeymoon adventure floating the Grand Canyonina woodenboat. Their boat wasfoundin calm waters, Bessie Hyde at Clark's home, plus a pistol in her lingerie drawer. “If you matchit up to one of the picturesof Glen and Bessie her menu,” said Bill George. Georgie, we just didn’t think “You'd choosea can of spaghet that this particular one was the while Bessie wrote poetry,” Greenand Coloradorivers. said Jirge. “Why she hadthat Clark began tying two and three rafts together to make a floating island of passengers in the early 1950s, and eventually invented the “G-rig,” a raft of three pontoons lashed together and powered by an outboard motor. These “thrill rigs,” as she called them, helped create canyon lowing her May 1992 death at hertrailer home in Las Vegas. Those who had known or worked for herfor decades, even people who considered them- selves close friends, had never beeninvited inside her home. “Any time we had any businessto do, we always metat the Silver Slipper Hotel [in Las Vegas], never at her home,” said Bill George of Salt Lake City, whose Western River Expeditions bought Clark’s company hiking in Utah and Arizona with an acquaintance, Harry Aleson, to ease her grief. Donninglife jackets, the pair swam andfloated the lower portion of told guests, “If you wantto eat, go toa restaurant; if you want to see the canyon, come with me.” “We used to accuse her of shopping for groceries with a Bill George. “I'm not saying that Georgie was Bessie Hyde, the river through the canyon magnet, because anything that ti, chili, whatever, and toss them all in a pot of boiling wa ter and the labels would come off, so you never knew what you were opening.” Clark's unconventional style on the river sometimes clashed with the increasing regulation of outfitters by the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service, whose agency representatives opposed changing the name. of Twenty-Four Mile Rez honor Clark. Grand y National Park information of- best choice,” said Oltrogge. dJirge once asked Clark what canyon rapid she would have namedafter her if she could Clark chose Crystal, the big: gest of all the Grand Canyon cataracts,’ but Jirge soon learnedthataltering the name of Crystal even as “Georgie's Crystal Rapid” would be politically impossible. “[ usedtothink, ‘Aw, I wish we could havegotten hera bigsaid Jirge. “But I summerinlowwater, andthat thing really kicks ficer MaureenOltroggesaidthe opposition stemmed from a you in the rear-end as you go through. And that was Georgie; feeling that Clark had nocon. shelikedto give people a good kick in the rear as she went through.” csmith@sitrib.com nection to Twenty-FourMile. “We were not opposed to a rapid being named after stuck to it would wind up on ona driftwood raft; thenin 1947, but the whole thingisa little spooky.” River historian Brad Dimock, whose new book, Sunk Without a Sound — The Tragic aroundit, examined the paraphernalia from Clark’s home. While someof the connections are “inexplicable,” Dimock Utah’s the modern-dayriveroutfitting business. Yet her scant attention to creature comforts was a far cry from the pampering that other outfitters were known for. She Grand Canyonin 1945. The next year, Clark and Alesonfloated enduring mysteries, a tale sim- country in 1934. The most popular version of the Hydetale holds that Bessie shot and killed her abusive husband while on theriver, hiked out of the gorge and begana newlife under a new name. Speculation about Clark’s connections to Bessie Hyde began when friends were going through herpersonal effects fol- from a bad situation, because, to a certain extent, that’s what she did byfinding her place on this planet when she cameto the river.” After her 15-year-old daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1944, Clark began Hyde in the canyon, it looks like it’s the samepistol,” said Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, investigates the couple’s story and the myths that have sprung up ilar to that ofEverett Ruess, the wandering, artistic youth who _. marriage license of Glen and upright, unscathed and fully loaded. What happened to the newlyweds is one of the canyon’s in they became amongthefirst to use war-surplus inflatable rafts to navigate the rapids of the about Bessie Hyde escaping tery toeven those closestto her. Evidence discovered at her home the day of her funeral raised the possibility Clark fabricated portionsofherpast, givingrise to a new element of the Georgie legend. While the theory has been B5 November26, 2001 a lot taller than Bessie, and Georgie was barely. literate marriage license, I have no her.” Forall her notoriety, Clark Mond: been the same, but Georgie was idea, but she certainly could have related to the stories @ Continued from B-1 vanished UTAH PRICES STARTING AT, 2$ 119.95 $119.95 $ 99.95 $ 109.95 $ 109.95 $119.95 $ 139,95 $ 179.95 $ 159.95 $ 169.95 BIKINIme UNDE! UPPER LIP CHIN | concluded from photographs that the two women were cer? tainly not one and the same. Clark's biographer, Richard Westwood of American Fork, said he also foundlittle to substantiate the theory that she andBessie Hyde were the same person. Still, Westwood Layton Dr. Aaron Basson 1580Antelope Dr, Suite 250 801.775.8200 PROPULSID DRUG ALERT Draper Dr. Denais D. Harper 12226South 1000East, #11 801.572.2600 If you have taken orare taking PROPULSID, you may havesufferedsilent heart damage and may have a legal cause of action for compensation against themanufacturer, Protect yourrights now. Fora free consultation, call wouldn’t put it past Clark to leave behind the Hyde clues to keeppeople guessing. “She wasnot above creating things that made a good story,” re said Westwood, author of Womanof the River — Georgie White Clark, White-Water Pioneer. The Law Firm Of Kathryn Collard: (801) 537-5625, Toll Free: 888-677-5800. Jirge also says there is no hard evidence that Clark was really Bessie Hyde. “Their first name may have . at her request when she became nurse, Lee McCurry, called me andsaid, ‘Bill, you’d better sit down because you're never going to believe the stuff I've foundat Georgie's.’” For starters, her birth certificate showed her real name was: Bessie DeRoss, not Georgie. 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