Editing Taos, New Mexico (section)

==In popular culture==
{{see also|Taos County, New Mexico#In popular culture}}

Taos has been featured in ''[[The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca]]'' (1960) and ''[[And Now Miguel]]'' (1966).<ref>Maddrey, Joseph (2016). ''The Quick, the Dead and the Revived: The Many Lives of the Western Film''. McFarland. p. 182. {{ISBN|9781476625492}}.</ref>

Country music artist [[Waylon Jennings]] sang a song titled "Taos, New Mexico" on his 1967 album ''[[Love of the Common People (album)|Love of the Common People]].''

A different song, also called "Taos, New Mexico", was a chart hit for Canadian singer/songwriter [[R. Dean Taylor]] in 1972.  The song charted in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and the US, reaching top 40 on the US Adult Contemporary charts.

The character Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud in the 1977 television series ''[[McCloud (TV series)|McCloud]]'', played by [[Dennis Weaver]], was portrayed as being from Taos.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dennis-weaver-20060228-story.html|title=From the Archives: Dennis Weaver, 81; Star of 'Gunsmoke,' 'McCloud' Also Was Environmental Activist|last=McLellan|first=Dennis| date = February 26, 2006 | work = [[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date= October 30, 2022}}</ref>

In his 1983 novel [[Christine (King novel)|Christine]], writer [[Stephen King]] states that Leigh Cabot eventually settled in Taos with her husband and twin daughters.

A “businessman from Taos” is referenced in the 2022 [[Charley Crockett]] song “Tom Turkey.”

On September&nbsp;18, 1991, the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] television series ''[[Reading Rainbow]]'' shot its 73rd episode "The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" here. The title was based on a book by [[Tomie dePaola]] and was narrated by Harold Littlebird (born 1951). [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]]'s Dominic C. Arquero introduced himself at this program's beginning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aptv.org/Schedule/showinfo.asp?ID=164380&NOLA1=RERA |title=The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush |work=Reading Rainbow |publisher=Alabama Public Television (PBS) |access-date=June 4, 2011 |archive-date=July 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725132857/http://www.aptv.org/Schedule/showinfo.asp?ID=164380&NOLA1=RERA |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/theme/myths.html |title=The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush |work=Myths and Legends, PBS Teachers |publisher=PBS |access-date= June 4, 2011}}</ref>

The [[Volkswagen Taos]], introduced in October 2018, is named after the town to pay tribute to its former resident [[John Muir (engineer)|John Muir]], a structural engineer who authored a Volkswagen repair book in 1969.<ref>{{cite web |last=Szymkowski|first=Sean|title=Volkswagen's New Compact SUV Will Wear 'Taos' Name |url = https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volkswagen-compact-suv-taos |access-date= October 15, 2020 |website=Roadshow|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Volkswagen Taos Will Be the Name of VW's Next Crossover |url = https://www.autoblog.com/2020/09/17/vw-taos-name-revealed/|access-date= October 15, 2020 |website=Autoblog|language=en}}</ref>

In [[Young Justice: Outsiders]], Taos is the location of the Meta-Human Youth Center, a community center formed by the [[Justice League]] and STAR Labs to help children and teens victimized by meta-human trafficking.

===Taos Hum===
An ongoing low-frequency noise, audible only to some, is thought to originate somewhere near this town and is consequently sometimes known as the [[The Hum|Taos Hum]]. Those who have heard the Hum usually hear it west of Taos near [[Tres Orejas]]. The Taos Hum was featured in a 1995 episode of the television series ''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.unsolved-mysteries.com/unexplained_events/taos_hum.html |title=Taos Hum | publisher=Unsolved-Mysteries.com |work=The Unexplained | access-date= June 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629154900/http://www.unsolved-mysteries.com/unexplained_events/taos_hum.html |archive-date= June 29, 2011}}</ref> was mentioned in [[Drive (The X-Files)|a 1998 episode]] of ''[[The X-Files]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.insidethex.co.uk/transcrp/scrp602.htm | title=X-Files script 602 | work=Inside the X | publisher=DrWeesh | access-date=June 3, 2011 | archive-date=July 16, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716111014/http://www.insidethex.co.uk/transcrp/scrp602.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> and was featured in [[Criminal Minds (season 13)|a 2018 episode]] of ''[[Criminal Minds]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28468 | title=Mixed Signals Transcript | work=TV Show Transcripts | publisher=Anonymous | access-date=March 3, 2024 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>