CITY OF DUST

It’s time to head south out of House , New Mexico, drop down off the Llano Estacado, and into the town of Taiban , home of one of the most...

The more I learn about the Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain, the massive tableland that covers over 37,000 square miles of west Texas and e...

The first thing that strikes one about Pep, at least before visiting, is its name. It might seem a little unusual, except that there’s ano...

We’re about to start a run of posts featuring towns out on the eastern plains of New Mexico, some not far from the Texas state line. A few...

It’s been awhile since we’ve visited an operating historic hotel, but over the last couple years we've seen the Express St. James in Ci...

Like Hillsboro , Kingston, New Mexico isn’t a ghost town. But it’s also not the place of which it was said that on nights when the miners ...

Hillsboro, New Mexico, at the foot of the Black Range, almost 20 miles west of I-25 on NM 152, the scenic route to Silver City, is not a g...

There’s not been much written about Engle, New Mexico over the years. The usual ghost town books I consult only mention the town in the co...