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Mason tells the tale of what happed when a plan with 6000 pounds of weed crashed in the mountains of Yosemite National Park in the late 1970s.

Sources: The Legend of Dope Lake: by Greg Nichols of in Men’s Journal.

https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/what-to-do-in-chamonix-in-summer

The 1977 Yosemite Dope Lake incident by Hikerdelic

https://hikerdelic.com/blogs/news/the-1977-yosemite-dope-lake-incident

Photo: Rick Schloss

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This week Marcelo takes us thru a dark chapiter in American History, the grotesquely named immigration law enforcement initiative “Operation Wetback” that used military style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants, often ignoring residential or citizen status. Eerily like the headlines of today, we will explore the motivations of those who created and carried out the constitutionally questionable act and the repercussions it had on the communities, economies, and families of those displaced.

#WesternHistory #TexasHistory #NewMexico, #ArizonaHistory #CaliforniaHistory #USHistory #immigranthistory #Chicanohistory #DeportationHistory #FalseSummitsPod #Eisenhower #JosehMaySwing

Sources

Los Angeles Times. “Operation Begins With Swift Roundup of Aliens in Pre-Dawn Sweep.” June 18,
1954.
San Antonio Express. “In the Loma Park sector, several informants tipped off authorities to an entire
family suspected of entering illegally. All members were removed by 5 a.m.” July 22, 1954.
El Paso Herald-Post. “WETBACKS FLOOD BORDER – Roundup Imminent.” June 16, 1954.
Kelly Lytle Hernández. *Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol*. University of California Press, 2010.
Mae M. Ngai. *Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America*. Princeton
University Press, 2004.
Juan González. *Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America*. Penguin Books, 2011.
Matt García. *A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles,
1900–1970*. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Oral History of José Ángel Gutiérrez. University of Texas Libraries Archives.
U.S. House Appropriations Committee. Testimony of General Joseph Swing. 1954.
Congressional Record. Remarks by Congressman Jack Anderson. 1954.
Diocese of Corpus Christi Archives. Letter from Father Raymond G. Vonnahmen. 1954.
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). National Newsletter. August 1954.

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This episode Mason tells the gang the story of gunman, gambler, and onetime lawman Ben Tompson. A contemporary of Bat Masterson and adversary of “Wild Bill” Hickok, learn how this native Englishman came to make the American South his home as he gambled and shot his way into the History Books.

#WesternHistory #KansasHistory #TexasHistory #OutlawHistory #LawmanHistory #BenThompson #TrueWesternhistory #Gunfighter #FalseSummitsPod

Sources:

Time to Die

By Thomas C. Bicknell and Chuck Parsons

https://truewestmagazine.com/article/time-to-die/

BEN THOMPSON 1843-1884: OLD WEST GUNFIGHTER AND AUSTIN CITY MARSHALL

By Matt Braun

https://knottingley.org.uk/history/ben_thompson.htm

The Life and Legacy of Ben Thompson: Gunfighter and Lawman

By: Tom Bicknell and Anne Beck

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/thompson-ben

The Life of John Wesley Hardin

By John Wesley Hardin

https://books.google.com/books?id=jLM-AAAAYAAJ&q=john+wesley+hardin#v=snippet&q=bull&f=false

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

By Sarah Smarsh & Robert Barr Smith

https://archive.org/details/outlawtalesofkan0000smar

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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/

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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

Durrett, Deanne Stillman. *Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West*
- Haarsma, Eileen M. *Black Women of the Old West*
- U.S. Postal Service Historical Archives
- Montana Historical Society Oral History Project
- *Unladylike2020* (PBS documentary)
- Ursuline Sisters Archives of Toledo, OH
- Cascade Courier obituaries, December 6, 1914
- Montana Women's History Resources, Montana Historical Society
- Star Route Records, U.S. National Archives
- "Mary Fields, Pioneer Mail Carrier" – Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 34

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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

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🎙️ This episode, we delve into a dark and unsettling chapter of Colorado history — the era when the Ku Klux Klan created a shadow government that infiltrated Denver’s City Hall and eventually reached the State Capitol.

We explore the societal and economic conditions that made it possible for a secret terrorist group of the 1870s to be born again in 1916 as a fraternity— and how, by the 1920s, they seized power with the aid of Freemasons, Woodsmen, and other fraternal organizations

But the so-called Invisible Empire wasn’t invincible. We break down how internal corruption, scandals, and rising public opposition brought the Klan’s Colorado reign to a swift and dramatic end.

Discretion Advised: sensitive topics

#WesternHistory #ColoradoHistory #DenverHistory
#BenjaminStapleton #JohnGalenLocke #BrownPalaceHotel #TabletopMountain
#PhilipVanCise #PhilHGoodstein #LindaGordon

Sources:

The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition

By Linda Gordon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34082146-the-second-coming-of-the-kkk

In The Shadow of the Klan: When the KKK Ruled Denver 1920-1926

Phil H. Goodstein

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2158055

Stapleton accused of paying off history museum to remove family’s KKK past from exhibit

By: Madeleine Schmidt

https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2018/04/stapleton-kkk-past-paying-off-history-museum/8585/

“Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty”: The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson

By Abbott Kahler

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-wasnt-very-pretty-the-rise-and-fall-of-dc-stephenson-18935042/

Woodrow Wilson: “It is like writing history with lightning.” Quote or No Quote?

By: Joe Coohill/Professor Buzzkill

https://professorbuzzkill.com/2017/08/30/qnq-29/

Colorado Under the Klan

By James H. Davis

https://www.historycolorado.org/story/2023/12/06/colorado-under-klan

The Klan in Charge: They Said It Couldn't Happen Here, but It Did

By Alan Prendergast

https://www.westword.com/news/gangbuster-kkk-klan-denver-mayor-da-van-cise-stapleton-16438675

Ben Stapleton Joined Ku Klux Klan for Political Power, Historian Says

By Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

https://www.westword.com/news/ben-stapleton-used-kkk-to-gain-power-in-denver-11727640

Episode photo from Westward

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In this episode, we’re taking a break from murderous outlaws and lawmen to bring you along to three strange roadside attractions in the West! 🛣️✨

📍 Marcelo gives us the spooky scoop on the Museum of the Weird in Austin, Texas 🦎🔮
📍 Mason explores the quirky Desert View Tower in Jacumba, California 🏜️🌬️
📍 Jess ties it all together with the eerie tale of the infamous Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada 🤡🏨

We hope you’ll join us and enjoy the strange ride! 🚗💨

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#DesertViewTower #MuseumOfWeird #ClownMotel #RoadsideAttractions #OffbeatMuseums #WesternHistory 🧭🎧

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