Strange things seem to happen in the Colorado mountains. Alferd Packer “et” some of his traveling buddies there in the early 1870s, and it’s where socialite “Baby Doe” Tabor froze to death in a broken down cabin near a played-out mine. Nikola Tesla’s experiments belong on the list. He caught lightning in a building. Born in Serbia in 1856, Tesla came to New York City in 1884 (and became a citizen seven years later). He briefly worked for inventor Thomas A. Edison, but a dispute ov


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