Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

A mine guide gingerly walks the tracks within 1,500 feet of underground passages at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, a restored mine once operated by the Phillips Family in the late 1800s in what is now owned by the City of Beckley, West Virginia and located in the city's New River Park Physical de

A one-room schoolhouse's classroom in one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia

A once-fine, now abandoned, house in Mineral County, West Virginia, near Keyser

A parade of similarly designed brick houses on Evans Avenue in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

A Monroe County, West Virginia farm scene after most autumn leaves have fallen

A piece of a most unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado

A piece of the vast Great Sage Plain in Montezuma County in extreme southwestern Colorado

A portion of the first block of Grand Avenue in Laramie, Wyoming

A portion of a 1st Street block in Laramie, Wyoming

A portion of the blacksmith's shop at South Park City Museum, a collection of historic buildings in Fairplay, Colorado

A portion of the historic B&O Railroad bridge over the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of what some call "the oldest building in the world" in Lamar, the county seat of Prowers County, Colorado

A prayer and presentation of colors at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

A rainbow appears over the unusual levee along the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado. It seems to descend upon the sketched head of the wise-cracking movie and television comedian Groucho Marx. His image is part of the long and eclectic mural on the levee walls

A private home in the country, with a teepee or wigwam theme and little wigwam additions, but also a modern deck and garage, near Pine Bluffs in Laramie County, Wyoming

A raging stream in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Front Range of the spectacular and high Rockies in north-central Colorado

A remnant of Camp Douglas in Douglas, Wyoming

A rail engine and flatbed cars near the little crossroads of Carlton in Prowers County, Colorado

A remnant of an old mining operation along the "Million Dollar Highway" between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

A rock climber tests a wall in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an international tourist attraction, packed with red-rock formations in Colorado Springs, Colorado

A rather fancy outhouse on the grounds of Elmwood Mansion, also known as the Hugh Caperton House, a historic home in Union, West Virginia

A sagging barn in Jefferson County, West Virginia

A rushing creek below the "Million Dollar Highway" between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

A scene from the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk, a 32-acre urban waterfront with excursion and gondola boat rides, food, festivals, and entertainment that winds through downtown Pueblo, Colorado

A roper stalks his wild-horse target at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee Days festival in Laramie, Wyoming

A Rocky Mountain mesa outside the town of Kremmling in Grand County, Colorado

A row of tourist cabins in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

A row of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

This rubble pile is actually the start of work Mr. Bishop was working on over twelve years ago. This is the start of a Wall and Turret outside Bishop's Castle, at 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest Physical descripti

A rocky, somewhat risky, twist and turn along a soaring tower of Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

A shop building at the historic Martinsburg Roundhouse Center in Martinsville, West Virginia

A scene with historical reverberations in the little town of Rupert, West Virginia. But there is a difference. These logs are loaded onto heavy trucks, a common site in the mountainous state

A small row of old west facades fronting the freight-train tracks in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

A six-foot-tall woodcarving by Russ Eichenberger at the West Texas Trail Museum in Moorcroft, Wyoming, where herds of Texas longhorn cattle pushed through in the late 1800s. Homesteaders followed, giving the town its start. Eichenberger calls his cowpoke, which once held up his mailbox at home but i

A sign with cutouts to enable visitors to take amusing photographs tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia. The goat's hole is filled by the face of photographer Carol M. Highsmith's husband, Ted Landphair

A small portion of the Fanny Bennett Hemlock Grove on one side of Spruce Knob, West Virginia's highest mountain, in Pendleton County

A small canal at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

A small rotunda on the campus of Colorado State University-Pueblo, the former University of Southern Colorado (and prior to that, Pueblo Junior College), in Pueblo

A small adobe house in Alamosa, Colorado

A small farmers' cooperative building in Pine Bluffs, a small farming community on the Nebraska border in Laramie County, Wyoming

A small, redecorated commercial building, once the local Sears Roebuck department store, in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

A stately Victorian mansion in the North Street Historic District of Martinsville, West Virginia

A stately Victorian mansion in the North Street Historic District of New Martinsville, West Virginia

A stone mansion, empty at the time of this image in 2015, in Pueblo, Colorado

A statue titled "A New Beginning," outside the Union Pacific Depot in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

A teeing ground and complex fairway at the Golf Club at Bear Dance, a bucolic public golf club spread over several wooded courses near Larkspur in Douglas County, Colorado

A stunningly red barn in Crook County, north of Moorcroft, Wyoming

A stately Victorian house in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

A storage building at "Sunridge," the last home of Hollywood actor Dennis Weaver and his wife, Gerry, in Ridgway, a town in rural Ouray County, Colorado

A stone pillar marking the spot where, in 1806, Rocky Mountain explorer Zebulon Pike (for whom Pikes Peak is named) once camped, next to what is now (in 2015) the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk, a 32-acre urban waterfront with excursion and gondola boat rides, food, festivals, and entertainment that wi

A view from across the Ohio River in Ohio of the Mail Pouch Tobacco factory and other buildings on Wheeling Island, once a heavily industrialized part of Wheeling, West Virginia, in the midst of the river

A view from across the Ohio River in Ohio of Wheeling Island, once a heavily industrialized part of Wheeling, West Virginia, in the midst of the river

A truck that's literally a shell of its former self, in Bent County, Colorado

A very real, very live, very tame deer in a small park the heart of the Casper College campus in Casper, Wyoming

A tipi (sometimes spelled teepee) at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming

A tugboat guides a barge under the Elk River Bridge in Charleston, West Virginia

A tourist barge plies a canal that's part of the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk (HARP) in Pueblo, Colorado

A tiny, poignant grave marker at Chico Cemetery, a windswept country graveyard near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado

A trompe-l'oeil mural of modern-day Pueblo Indian life, covering the entire north wall of the c. 1900 E. R. Lamb Mercantile Building, now the Cortez Cultural Center in Cortez, Colorado