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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: Chloride, New Mexico

2017-05-24 John Mulhouse City of Dust, What to Do Leave a comment

A Resurrection I’ll admit that many of the places I visit are run-down and lonesome and the tales tend to

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City of Dust: Lake Valley, New Mexico

2017-05-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

The Bridal Chamber Let’s check out Lake Valley, site of the famous Bridal Chamber Mine. Lake Valley lies in the

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City of Dust: Dawson, New Mexico

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Way Down in the Mines It’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew; Where the dangers are double

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City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico

2017-04-27 John Mulhouse City of Dust 8 comments

Little Place on the Prairie The Homestead Act of 1862 was an attempt by the U.S. government to entice citizens

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City of Dust: Elizabethtown, New Mexico

2017-04-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

From what I can tell, people who read City of Dust are pretty much split between those who enjoy the

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Independence Day

2017-04-17 John Mulhouse Fiction One comment

It was the middle of the morning on the Fourth of July and the rain was pounding down. Dirty, gray

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City of Dust: San Antonio, New Mexico

2017-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

The Roots of Paris Hilton Around the turn of the 20th Century, a boy would walk from his father’s mercantile

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City of Dust: Duran, New Mexio

2017-03-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

The Last Hanging Crime Someday I’ll tell you a tale of a town that didn’t owe its very existence to

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City of Dust: Yeso, New Mexico

2017-03-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Life (and Death) by Railroad Most of the ghost towns I visit have been written about by Philip Varney in

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City of Dust: Dripping Springs, New Mexico

2017-03-09 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

Cool Water The hike from the Dripping Springs Natural Area visitor center to a cluster of lovely old ruins tucked

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City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

2017-03-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust 48 comments

Pat Garret Really Should Have Stayed the Night Organ, New Mexico isn’t really a ghost town these days, but I’m

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City of Dust: Taiban, New Mexico

2017-02-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

Whiskey and the Devil Taiban is known for its old Presbyterian Church, a lonely, gutted house of worship visited by

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City of Dust: Claunch, New Mexico

2017-01-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 12 comments

Pinto Beans and Singing Conventions Claunch’s position in central New Mexico put it firmly within the pinto bean empire of

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City of Dust: Fort Bayard, New Mexico

2017-01-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

[El Chuqueño welcomes contributor John Mulhouse, who writes about ghost towns. This piece originally appeared in the City of Dust

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