Category: City of Dust

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Your Rope’s Too Long Clayton, New Mexico is a little bit out of the way. You’re probably not going

A Town With Two Names While the Man with No Name might feel right at home in the ghost town

High Pines About seven miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, on Hwy 15, at the gateway to the massive

In the Shadow of the Buffalo Hunters There are some towns out on the eastern plains of New Mexico, not

The Ruins by the Rails Ricardo, New Mexico is yet another of the many towns that came to life seemingly

Zinc Town Just three miles southeast of Fierro, New Mexico, the town featured a few weeks ago, is Hanover. Hanover

Iron Town Let’s pay a visit to Fierro, New Mexico, in the southwestern part of the state, a few miles

A Little Piece of Quiet I might as well stop pretending that I’m going to write more regularly and admit

Pie Town, New Mexico In the pinon-juniper woodland west of Socorro, New Mexico, just east of the Arizona line, is

Cross Road Blues Back around 2013, Vaughn, New Mexico was probably best known for its police force, which consisted of