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False Summits: A History Podcast about the American West

False Summits: A History Podcast about the American West

De: Mason Orlando - Jess Leigh - Marcelo Aguilar
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The American West has been capturing the imagination for hundreds of years. Hollywood being one of its biggest promoters it gave it an almost mythical status in minds worldwide. Depicted as a rough and tumble place but with a bit of grit and termination on could achieve love and prosperity. Dose the realty hold up to the image? And if so, does it the same ring true today?

Dive into the blurry side of the American West with this darkly comedic history podcast. Join Mason Orlando, Jess Leigh, and Marcelo Aguilar as they explore the wild, weird, grim often terrifying events that create what the American West is today.

From bizarre outlaws and forgotten massacres to eccentric hermits and religious followers attempting to create utopia, this podcast takes a sharp, absurdist twist on Western American history. With a blend of dark humor, historical insight, and a dash of heathy commentary, each episode we cover weird, unsettling, and sometimes hopeful stories that may challenge your conception of the wild West.

© 2025 False Summits: A History Podcast about the American West
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Episodios
  • Bishop Koyle’s Dream Mine
    Jul 19 2025

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    In this episode, Mason tells the story of John Hyrum Koyle. A prominent member of the church of latter-day Saints whose prophetic dreams caused him and his believers to build a mine based on Koyle’s visions. Dubbed the Dream Mine, Koyle promised it would not only yield treasures for the church to use in the end times, but also unearth lost relics that would unlock unknown dimensions of the Mormon faith. Eventually the Bishop’s is mine and visions would put him and his “Dream Miners” in opposition to the leadership of their Church.

    #WesternHistory #UtahHistory #LDSHistory #MormonHistory #DreamMine #JohnKoyle #BishopKoyle #SalmUtah #FalseSummitsPod

    Resources:

    THE DREAM MINE STORY

    by Norman C. Pierce 1958

    https://www.ourhollowearth.com/DreamMineStory.pdf

    Utah History Encyclopedia

    Dream Mine

    Jay M. Haymond

    https://web.archive.org/web/20170909015113/http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/mining_and_railroads/dreammine.html

    5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Three Nephites

    https://www.ldsliving.com/5-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-three-nephites/s/87111

    By Katie Lambert

    Preparation for the Second Coming

    By Elder Dallin H. Oaks

    Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2004/04/preparation-for-the-second-coming?lang=eng

    Utah’s Dream Mine still has thousands of stockholders, supporters

    Katie England

    Daily Herald

    https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2018/jul/29/utahs-dream-mine-still-has-thousands-of-stockholders-supporters/

    THE MUDDY MISSION

    Susan Lyman-Whitney

    https://www.deseret.com/1992/1/30/18965085/the-muddy-mission-br/

    The Century Old ‘Dream Mine’ That’s Yet to Produce Gold

    Kaushik Patowary

    https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/11/the-century-old-dream-mine-thats-yet-to.html

    Fully Invested: Taking Stock in Utah County’s Dream Mine

    By Kevin Cantera

    https://sunstone.org/fully-invested-taking-stock-in-utah-countys-dream-mine/?ref=reliefmine.com

    The Dream Mine Story: Mormonism’s Most Expensive Revelation [Mormonism Live 231]

    https://radiofreemormon.org/2025/05/the-dream-mine-story-mormonisms-most-expensive-revelation-mormonism-live-231/

    Thanks so much for listening!!!!!

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    49 m
  • Stagecoach Mary Fields
    Jul 4 2025

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    In this episode Marcelo tells the impressive the Story of “Stagecoach” Mary Fields. When it came to stagecoach driving, Mary, a hard drinking, cigar smoking, shotgun welding badass was in a league of her own and who later became America’s first Black Woman postal worker on one of Americas toughest routes through the Montana territory in the late 1890s.

    #USHistory #MontanaHistory #WesternHistory #BlackHistory

    Thanks so much for listening!!!!!

    Like, subscribe, leave a review, wherever you can!!!

    Check us out with pictures on YouTube.com @ FalseSummitPodcast and like and subscribe !!!

    We would love to hear from you!
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    Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com

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    45 m
  • The Impossible Railroad!!! The San Diego & Arizona Railway, Last Transcontinental Railway completed in the US!
    Jun 20 2025

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    Mason takes the gang on a ride through the history of the planning, construction, and operation of the only transnational railroad in North America.

    Learn about how San Diego City founder John D Speckles secretly conspired with southern pacific railroad man Edward Harriman to build the long-awaited line from San Diego to Yuma. What started as a practical idea, turned into battle against nature as construction crews slowly carved the line through a desert mountain landscape facing both the elements and at times hostile revolutionaries to complete 146-mile line. Find out why from almost opening day the line faced a constant struggles against the harsh desert climates and economics of a changing world.

    #Californahistory #Railroadhistory #SanDiegohistory #Westernhistory #sandiego&Arizona railway #Southernpacificrailwaymuseum #Johndspreckels # EdwardHarriman #Carrizogorge #GoatCanyonBridge

    Sources:

    The Imposable Railroad

    KPBS San Diego 1999

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2y3eT5dC8

    The Imposable Railroad

    All Around Nevada/ by Howard Goldbaum

    https://allaroundnevada.com/impossible-railroad/

    History of the San Diego and Arizona: San Diego’s “Impossible Railroad”

    Railway Historical Society of San Diego/ by Richard V Dodge

    https://www.psrm.org/sda/

    John D. Spreckels (1853-1926)

    The San Diego History Center

    https://sandiegohistory.org/archives/biographysubject/spreckels/

    Well There's Your Problem | Episode 139: The Impossible Railroad

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHO8g0hDRM

    Thanks so much for listening!!!!!

    Like, subscribe, leave a review, wherever you can!!!

    Check us out with pictures on YouTube.com @ FalseSummitPodcast and like and subscribe !!!

    We would love to hear from you!
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    Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com

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