Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History

Author(s): John M. Mulhouse

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Series: Abandoned Union
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781634992343
Related Topics: Abandoned Union, West, Latest

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Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History encompasses huge swathes of time and space.

As rural populations decline and young people move to ever-larger cities, much of our past is left behind. Out on the plains or along now-quiet highways, changes in modes of livelihood and transportation have moved only in one direction.

Stately homes and hand-built schools, churches and bars-these are not just the stuff of individual lives, but of an entire culture. New Mexico, among the least-dense states in the country, was crossed by both the Spanish and Route 66; the railroad stretched toward every hopeful mine and outlaws died in its arms.

Its pueblos are among the oldest human habitations in the U.S., and the first atomic bomb was detonated nearly dead in its center.

John Mulhouse spent almost a decade documenting the forgotten corners of a state like no other through his popular City of Dust project.

From the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert to the snow-capped Moreno Valley, travel through John’s words and pictures across the legendary Land of Enchantment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

John M. Mulhouse started the City of Dust blog in 2004, dedicated to photo-documentation of the numerous derelict historic buildings and abandoned places along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Following a move to New Mexico in 2009, City of Dust began to explore the history of entire towns, rural places often forgotten by all but those who still live there and love them. Largely using film and a New Mexico Atlas & Gazetteer, he has collected thousands of images of the state’s past as seen from the present. He remains a hunter of ghost towns, empty houses, endless ribbons of asphalt, and more.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781634992343
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 8/24/2020
STATE: New Mexico
SERIES: America Through Time
IMAGES: 150
PAGES: 160
DIMENSIONS: 9.25 (w) x 6.5 (h)

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