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City of Dust – Pearce, Arizona

2021-02-23 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust – The Book

2021-01-06 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: Cuchillo, New Mexico

2020-11-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: The St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico

2020-05-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Colfax, New Mexico

2020-05-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: Jicarilla, New Mexico

2020-04-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: Acme and Frazier, New Mexico

2018-06-01 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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Rich Wright for District 8

2018-05-18 elrichiboy City of Dust, political advertisement 5 comments

I’m launching my campaign for City Council next Thursday, May 24, at 5:30 at Happy’s, in that new retail center

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City of Dust: Guadalupe, New Mexico

2018-05-03 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico

2018-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 3 comments

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

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The Long Goodbye

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The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population

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City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico

2018-03-19 John Mulhouse City of Dust 7 comments

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

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City of Dust: Cedarvale, New Mexico

2018-02-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Trouble in Mind

2018-02-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

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

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City of Dust: Lucy, New Mexico

2018-01-25 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

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

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City of Dust: Hillsboro, New Mexico

2018-01-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Kingston, New Mexico

2018-01-05 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: Monticello, New Mexico

2017-12-21 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

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

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City of Dust: Montoya, New Mexico

2017-12-14 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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City of Dust: Newkirk, New Mexico

2017-12-08 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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

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