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

2022-11-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

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 – 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

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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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

2018-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 9 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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City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)

2018-03-19 John Mulhouse City of Dust 20 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

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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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City of Dust: Hillsboro, New Mexico

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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 5 comments

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 19 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

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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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