In part two of a two-part series, Marcelo, and Mason conclude their talk about pioneering 1880’s con-artist Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith.Sources: Soapy Smith: Con Man’s Empirehttps://www.historynet.com/soapy-smith-con-mans-empire/Outlaw tales of Colorado - Jan Murphy Eccentric Colorado - Kenneth JessenPhoto: Andy ThomasThank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

In part one of a two-part series, Marcelo, and Mason talk about pioneering 1880’s con-artist Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith man who built multiple criminal empires from Denver to Alaska!!!Sources: Soapy Smith: Con Man’s Empirehttps://www.historynet.com/soapy-smith-con-mans-empire/Outlaw tales of Colorado - Jan Murphy Eccentric Colorado - Kenneth JessenPhoto: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.ZYojzz8lbz3WKAjmsF93BQHaJ_%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=257af93d82c9622a2a5c7921a902e6cef89fccf5042a96415933be024e4d6f17&ipo=images                Thank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Introducing the False Summits podcast!Thank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podThank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Did you know that the United States of America had an emperor? Well kind of. In this episode Jess & Mason talk about the life and Times of a beloved & eccentric San Francisco citizen Joshua Norton our America’s only “emperor”.https://emperornortontrust.org/emperor/lifehttp://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.htmlDrag Herstory: This Drag Queen Was The First Openly Gay American To Run For Office - Elyssa Goodmanhttps://www.them.us/story/jose-sarria-drag-queen-historyWeird California -Bishop, Oesterle, MarinacciThank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

In another episode about the strange things people get up to in the Southern California desert. Mason entertains pod newcomer Marcelo Aguilar with the story of early urologist George Washington Van Tassel and his cosmic "Time Machine" that you can still visit today!!!!Check out our socials!https://www.instagram.com/false_summits_pod/https://bsky.app/profile/falsesummitspod.bsky.socialEpisode sourceshttps://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/giant-rock-space-people-and-the-integratron/https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/Story-of-alien-landmark-Landers-17204003.phphttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.htmlPhoto Credit adventure.comThank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

In this installment Mason and Jess are Joined by Vanessa Heart to talk about one of Denver Colorado’s most beloved parks, how it started life as a paupers' grave, and how the remines of thousands of cities’ forgotten still rest just beneath park-goers’ feet!!Guest: Vanessa Heart Instagram @ vanessaheart Photo Credits:history.denverlibrary.orgSources: Cheesman Park's Past Life...as a CemeteryKatie Rudolphdenverlibrary.orghttps://history.denverlibrary.org/news/cheesman-parks-past-lifeas-cemetery Unearthing Denver park's creepy historyJim Spellman   CNNhttps://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/18/denver.park.cemetery/index.html A Brief History of Cheesman ParkCheesman Park Advocacy Grouphttps://cheesmanpark.org/park-history Cheesman Park, Denver Colorado: A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.Nicholas JacksonAtlas Obscurahttps://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cheesman-parkCrime Buff's Guide to the Outlaw RockiesRon Franscellhttps://ronfranscell.com/2015/10/06/the-crime-buffs-guide-to-outlaw-rockies/Weird Colorado Charmaine Ortega Getz https://www.westword.com/author/charmaine-ortega-getzThank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

In our first tale of the Old West, Mason and Jess discuss the misfortunate journey of “Big Nose” George Pratte, Horse thief turned murder whose actions so enrage the people of Carbon County some took the law into their own hands. After which the town doctors studied his remains and then turned them into some truly gruesome fashion. Follow us on on Instagram @ false_summits_pod  to see images related to today's episode.Big Nose George: A Grisly Frontier TaleBy Lori PeltWYOhistory.orghttps://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/big-nose-george-grisly-frontier-tale The Carbon County Museumhttps://www.carboncountymuseum.orgColumbus Buried in San Domingo? Evening star https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star/41508800/ Big Nose George Becomes a Pair of ShoesKathy AlexanderLegends of Americahttps://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-bignose/In the United States, the Montbéliard bandit was turned into shoes.Boris Massaini L’est Republicain https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-belfort-hericourt-montbeliard/2019/08/05/aux-usa-le-bandit-montbeliardais-transforme-en-chaussuresCrime Buff's Guide to the Outlaw RockiesRon Franscellhttps://ronfranscell.com/2015/10/06/the-crime-buffs-guide-to-outlaw-rockies/Photo:historynet.comThank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

In this instalment, Mason and Jess concluded their talk about Project Plowshare. Lean how Atomic Energy Commission tested a nuke almost 3 times the size of the bomb used in Hiroshima in a western Colorado community, the citizens who tried to stop it, and how the their work lead to the downfall of the Plowshare project. Sources Lawrence Livermore National Laboratoryhttps://st.llnl.gov/The Plowshare Program | Science and TechnologyEdward Teller, 1958–1960 Forty-Five Years Ago, the Government Used Subterranean Nukes to Dig for Natural GasJosiah M. HesseVice.comhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/4w7pgj/45-years-ago-colorado-fracked-with-subterranean-nuclear-bombs-1015 The Boom YearsScott C. Yateswestwordhttps://www.westword.com/news/nuclear-blast-colorado-edward-teller-5058374 People’s Atlas of Nuclear ColoradoBy: Valerie Kuletzcoloradonuclearatlas.org The Children of John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dick Powell Fear That Fallout Killed Their ParentsBy Karen Jackovich and Mark Sennethttps://people.com/archive/the-children-of-john-wayne-susan-hayward-and-dick-powell-fear-that-fallout-killed-their-parents-vol-14-no-19/ people.com Want To Trigger A Nuke In Colorado? Well, Thanks To Project Rulison 50 Years Ago You Need To Ask Voters FirstBy Grace HoodCPRhttps://www.cpr.org/2019/09/10/want-to-trigger-a-nuke-in-colorado-well-thanks-to-project-rulison-50-years-ago-you-need-to-ask-voters-first/ Plowshare By Carl R Gerber , Richard Hamburger, E. W Seabrook Hull   https://www.osti.gov/includes/opennet/includes/Understanding%20the%20Atom/Plowshare.pdf  Photo Credits:Los Alamos National LaboratoryUS Department of Energy Thank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

Mason and Jess discuss Project Plowshare. A fever dream of Cold War era scientists and industrialists  that tested whether or not nuclear expositions could be used for major mining and construction projects, and how it ultimately resulted in a small Colorado community  being selected  as ground Zero for a nuclear test blast!!Sources: https://st.llnl.gov/https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w7pgj/45-years-ago-colorado-fracked-with-subterranean-nuclear-bombs-1015https://www.westword.com/news/nuclear-blast-colorado-edward-teller-5058374coloradonuclearatlas.orghttps://people.com/archive/the-children-of-john-wayne-susan-hayward-and-dick-powell-fear-that-fallout-killed-their-parents-vol-14-no-19/PhotoUS Department of Energy Thank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

About 180 miles  south east of Los Angeles in the harsh climate of the  Sonoran desert lies Slab City,  Coined the “Last Free Place on Earth”  This off the gird community has been attracting  people since the late 1960’s. In this “maiden episode” of False Summits Mason talks with Jess Leigh about the history of this small desert enclave made of retirees, artists, religious devotees, free thinkers, squatters, and other outliners came to be.     Show Sources links https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-slab-city-squatters-paradise-southern-california-180970218/https://www.thetravel.com/how-lawless-is-slab-city/#slab-city-is-built-on-an-abandoned-marine-corps-training-basehttps://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1988/mar/10/cover-hot-place-in-the-sun/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-10/no-escaping-covid-19-even-at-california-remote-slab-cityhttps://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145645412/down-and-out-escape-to-slab-in-california-deserthttps://www.peopleareculture.com/salvation-mountain/https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/mar/17/travel-welcome-east-jesus-ca/https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/slab-city-salvation-mountain-sale-in-california-18154437.phphttps://www.rvtravel.com/slab-city-potential-sale-kill-rv-boondocking-there-rvt-1110b/https://issuu.com/mcbcp_archives/docs/pendletonscout.4.2.011446.ocrhttps://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/d/dunlap.htmlhttps://salvationmountain.org/home/our-mission/http://www.sccgi.org/https://eastjesus.org/If you want to send a letter with your thoughts on the possible sale of Slab City & Salvation Mountain you can write the California State Lands Commission at:100 Howe Avenue, Suite 100 South, Sacramento, CA 95825. Thank you for your suport!We would love to hear from you!Feel free to send an email to falsesummitspod@gmail.com and or follow on Instagram @ false_summits_podMusic Provided by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/