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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.

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    • Dope Lake 77
      Oct 1 2025

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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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      29 min
    • Operation Wetback
      Aug 23 2025

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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.

      Thanks so much for listening!!!!!

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      48 min
    • Dangerous Dandy Ben Thompson
      Aug 1 2025

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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


      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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      34 min
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