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welcome to another episode of mysteries of the Superstition Mountains one of the
most fascinating characters that I've read about that has to do with those
mountains is Walt Gassler and we met with Ron Feldman and he filled us in on
a lot of information about this gentleman
Ron one of the characters that
I really am fascinated by he is definitely fascinating is Walt Gassler
the last trip that Gassler went in we packed him in and left him that's
what he wanted and then a good friend of mine Don Shade a Dutchman hunter he was
riding with one of my Wranglers back there one day and he found wild guests
were sitting up on a rock dead he is the guy that found him Don shade and he had
a backpack on now somewhere along the line this backpack supposedly
disappeared and supposedly the story is he had gold ore in it okay and
supposedly I think Tom Colinburn somehow wound up with it okay so those
are a lot of suppose 'it's Tom was doing a speech somewhere one night and this
guy came up and said he was I think Rowland Gassler I'm a son of Walt I understand
you have the ore and I think he wanted it Tom didn't give it to him the guy
happened to be an imposter now I met the real Rowland Gassler I
happen to meet him and we sat down and talked for some time and Rowland said my dad
had nothing in the mountains he had nothing in that backpack and it was not
carrying any gold with him Walt Gassler was a strong believer he was good
friends with Tex Berkeley by the way but Walt had nothing absolutely nothing but
the dream. Ron there's an area where I came across some huge boulders I mean
they're big and you have to climb across them get to the other side they don't
look natural can you fill us in about those no! you know where I'm talking yeah
I know you're not look natural yeah we we climb by thing I think it's kind of
it looks like a wall yeah there's a there's a lot of that in places in the
mountain in and if it's what I'm talking about
big boulders yeah, yeah a lot of it was used for drift fence by the ranchers
okay but you hike over that you go to the right on the other side go down the
canyon then there's like a couple of real steep cliffs that should go on and
on one side you've got a mine and someone has spray-painted you know let's
back up okay a mine is a hole in the ground probably all right project
prospect it's up on the side of the mountain and some spray painted an arrow
saying Peralta mind yeah it's a prospect up there you can't it's hard to get you
couldn't get to it like I'm a rock climber but on the other side I saw a
cave and that well that looks like it would be perfect if I found some
building in there some dwelling went in there and sure enough it looks a lot
like Rogers trough Rogers trailhead Rogers trough looks like that it's not
but it's a perfectly except it didn't have the top to it well it's all Indian
you understand yeah it's all prehistoric Indian now someone but in Gassler's
stories he said that that was one of the Peralta's headquarters. poppycock!!!
is that what it is yeah poppycock it's it's Gassler had nothing and that's
not it's Indian ruins okay totally Indian. okay. the big one at Angel Springs
same thing yes exactly looks exactly like it it's in by the way that's a big
story in itself what we found at Angel Springs really yeah and that's another
story okay for another time then that's another yeah okay so that now what
Canyon is that you know is that pistol Canyon or the one going up into the
mountain from the one going in to where the ruins are. it's pistol that is
pistol because it's it's a box canyon which is which is a very interesting
Canyon but it's got nothing in it it's an eerie cane it is very scary
looking canyons you say there's nothing there no except for no mineral okay
you're not on the east side all right you're not gonna find gold
now John Coheera found the gold but it came from somewhere else okay
there's nothing like that anywhere near Peters, Mason, Malapai
mountain or the west side okay alright because that's what I guess one
of his theories was and this was Gassler or somebody he was associated with you know
more about this and I do that that Tex Berkeley and some others went back there
and overturned some of the what do you call them... the grinding stones yeah right there too so
that no one could tell right there was anything going on and the grinding
stones are Indian yeah they're all Indian yeah do you know anything about
that they I just know the story yeah yes I've heard the same story you have yeah
okay alright and you know figured this way Tex was involved in a lot of that
prehistory of the Dutchman and he was involved with with the charade of the
Dutchman being on the west side so here comes a guy named Walt Glasser and he's
gonna perpetrate his story maybe go out with them and show them all this stuff
and you know make sure Gessler doesn't get to the east side well I've been
fascinated with Walt Gassler for quite some time now and it's it's interesting
that we've been able to solve a little bit of the mystery surrounding Walt
Gassler his death and so forth another one of those mysteries in the
Superstition Mountain
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