Category: City of Dust

Getting on the Ghost Town Trail Pearce, Arizona marks the beginning of the Ghost Town Trail. Start heading southwest out

Longtime El Chuqueño contributor John Mulhouse has written a book. Okay, it’s not really called City of Dust. The publisher

By the Wayside: Cuchillo, New Mexico Not far from Truth or Consequences, a (longish) stone’s throw from I-25, is Cuchillo,

We Will Shoot the Lights Out for You In the fall of 2005, I was driving from Oklahoma to Taos

Days Too Late Originally known as Vermejo Junction, Colfax was established in 1869 and took its name from Schuyler Colfax,

Almost Gone About seven miles south of Ancho, down an unexpectedly bumpy gravel county road (I’ve gotta learn to pay

A Tale of Two Towns Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be

Music on the Wind Today let’s visit the banks of the Puerco and explore the history of Guadalupe, New Mexico.

Empty Desks In Socorro County, New Mexico, tucked off a side road that parallels I-25, not far from a muddy

Too Small to be a Village, Not Large Enough to be a Town On Highway 55, about 40 miles south

No Rattlesnakes/No Pinto Beans Let’s stay in central New Mexico for one more post and add yet another piece to

I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age

A Tale of Three Lucy’s Let’s get back on Highway 60 and drive just a little bit west of Negra

This Is Not a Ghost Town Hillsboro, New Mexico, at the foot of the Black Range, almost 20 miles west

The Way Things Weren’t Kingston, New Mexico isn’t a ghost town. But it’s also not the place of which it

Peace in the Valley Okay, it’s true that Monticello, New Mexico isn’t a full-on ghost town. Some folks do indeed

Almost No Kicks If you drive east of last week’s featured town of Newkirk on old Route 66, at some

Getting Less Kicks Newkirk, New Mexico is a bit of an enigma. It doesn’t show up in ghost town guides–probably