Category: City of Dust

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

BACK IN STOCK! The remainder of the reprint of “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” has

Bucket of Blood Street, USA The sun was slowly setting over the Petrified Forest, giant slabs of ancient wood and

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

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

Frequent contributor John Mulhouse has opened a City of Dust webstore. There, you can order Mr. Mulhouse’s books, as well

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

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

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