We Will Shoot the Lights Out for You In the fall of 2005, I was driving from Oklahoma to Taos
Author: John Mulhouse
While studying botany in Georgia in 2003, John Mulhouse became captivated by the abandoned architecture of the South and began publishing photographs and history on his blog, City of Dust. Since 2009, he has largely devoted his efforts to documenting ghost towns of the Southwest. In addition to co-authoring scientific papers on wetland and desert plant ecology, John has compiled all the non-historical writing from his blog into an anthology, “A Loss for Words & Other Stories: Excerpts from 10 Years of City of Dust.” It has been lauded by eight people on Amazon.
City of Dust: Colfax, New Mexico
Days Too Late Originally known as Vermejo Junction, Colfax was established in 1869 and took its name from Schuyler Colfax,
City of Dust: Jicarilla, New Mexico
Almost Gone About seven miles south of Ancho, down an unexpectedly bumpy gravel county road (I’ve gotta learn to pay
City of Dust: Acme and Frazier, New Mexico
A Tale of Two Towns Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be
City of Dust: Guadalupe, New Mexico
Music on the Wind Today let’s visit the banks of the Puerco and explore the history of Guadalupe, New Mexico.
City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
Empty Desks In Socorro County, New Mexico, tucked off a side road that parallels I-25, not far from a muddy
City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico
Too Small to be a Village, Not Large Enough to be a Town On Highway 55, about 40 miles south
City of Dust: Cedarvale, New Mexico
No Rattlesnakes/No Pinto Beans Let’s stay in central New Mexico for one more post and add yet another piece to
City of Dust: Trouble in Mind
I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age
City of Dust: Lucy, New Mexico
A Tale of Three Lucy’s Let’s get back on Highway 60 and drive just a little bit west of Negra
City of Dust: Hillsboro, New Mexico
This Is Not a Ghost Town Hillsboro, New Mexico, at the foot of the Black Range, almost 20 miles west
City of Dust: Kingston, New Mexico
The Way Things Weren’t Kingston, New Mexico isn’t a ghost town. But it’s also not the place of which it
City of Dust: Monticello, New Mexico
Peace in the Valley Okay, it’s true that Monticello, New Mexico isn’t a full-on ghost town. Some folks do indeed
City of Dust: Montoya, New Mexico
Almost No Kicks If you drive east of last week’s featured town of Newkirk on old Route 66, at some
City of Dust: Newkirk, New Mexico
Getting Less Kicks Newkirk, New Mexico is a bit of an enigma. It doesn’t show up in ghost town guides–probably
City of Dust: Clayton, New Mexico
When Your Rope’s Too Long Clayton, New Mexico is a little bit out of the way. You’re probably not going
City of Dust: Riley, New Mexico
A Town With Two Names While the Man with No Name might feel right at home in the ghost town
City of Dust: Pinos Altos, New Mexico
High Pines About seven miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, on Hwy 15, at the gateway to the massive
City of Dust: Causey, New Mexico
In the Shadow of the Buffalo Hunters There are some towns out on the eastern plains of New Mexico, not
City of Dust: Ricardo, New Mexico
The Ruins by the Rails Ricardo, New Mexico is yet another of the many towns that came to life seemingly