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The Long Goodbye

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The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population

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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

2018-02-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

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

2018-01-25 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

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

2018-01-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

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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City of Dust: Newkirk, New Mexico

2017-12-08 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Clayton, New Mexico

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

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City of Dust: Riley, New Mexico

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

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City of Dust: Pinos Altos, New Mexico

2017-11-07 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Causey, New Mexico

2017-10-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust 7 comments

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

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City of Dust: Ricardo, New Mexico

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

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City of Dust: Hanover, New Mexico

2017-10-06 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Fierro, New Mexico

2017-09-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

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

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City of Dust: Lingo, New Mexico

2017-08-29 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

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

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City of Dust: Pie Town, New Mexico

2017-08-10 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

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

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City of Dust: Vaughn, New Mexico

2017-08-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust 4 comments

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

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