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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: Mystery Photos

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by John Mulhouse I was sent two vintage photos from unidentified locations by someone that wants to know where their

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City of Dust: Cabezón, New Mexico

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by John Mulhouse Beneath the Giant’s Head If you’re tooling around the Rio Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, one feature

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Tollgate Canyon, New Mexico

2023-04-11 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

by John Mulhouse Take the Flat Way Home If you’re reading this it means I’ve managed to successfully upload the

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City of Dust “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” Wall Calendar

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by John Mulhouse It’s almost Thanksgiving and that must mean it’s time for the 2023 City of Dust “Abandoned New

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City of Dust – The Albuquerque Rail Yards

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by John Mulhouse Train I Ride The Albuquerque Rail Yards are a massive complex sprawling over 27.3 acres and sitting

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City of Dust – Drawbridge, California

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My Mother Was the Marshland My mother was the marshland. My father was the railroad. I was born in 1876

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City of Dust – Twin Arrows, Arizona

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A couple of years ago I wrote about Two Guns, Arizona, an old Route 66 trading post with a history

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City of Dust – Gleeson, Arizona

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Copper, Turquoise, and Moonshine We’ve reached our last stop on the Cochise County Ghost Town Trail: Gleeson, Arizona. When the

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City of Dust – Courtland, Arizona

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And You Will Know Me By My Jail Traveling southwestward down the dusty Ghost Town Trail puts us in the

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City of Dust: Cuchillo, New Mexico

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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City of Dust: Guadalupe, New Mexico

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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

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

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City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)

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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

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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

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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

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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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