So, how did Elizabethtown, located off the now New Mexico State Road 38 between Eagle Nest and Red River, come to be and end up a ghost town? The story starts with the discovery of gold on Baldy ...

Elizabethtown, New Mexico. The grade school in a deserted gold camp town which dated back to the 1870s. Photo by Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992. (Credit: Library of Congress) Elizabethtown, New Mexico.

Clover grows atop Penitente Peak, one of New Mexico’s 12,000-plus-foot mountains, with Santa Fe Baldy, left, and the Truchas Peaks, right, rising in the distance. Matt Dahlseid/The New Mexican ...