Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

A truly significant trail sign along the Gaudineer Intrepretive Trail in the Mongongahela National Forest West Virginia

First Presbyterian Church in Huntington, West Virginia

A wall of Old West artifacts at the White Mountain Trading Post, a western-themed living-history museum in Fort Garland, in south-central Colorado's San Luis Valley

A vintage Polly Gas sign in Neon Alley, a public-art project in Pueblo, Colorado, devised by sign collector Joseph Koncilja

A weathered barn in rural La Plata County, Colorado

A welcome sign of sorts in dowtown Julesburg, Colorado, in the very northeastern corner of the state, near the Nebraska line

A wagon whose owner sells various kinds of jerky, or lean meat (in this case from cattle, bison, and elk) that has been trimmed of fat, cut into strips, and then dried to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt to prevent bacteria from developing on the meat before suff

A vintage gasoline station display at a tourist-cabin site in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

A Weirton, West Virginia, steel plant, viewed from across the Ohio River in Ohio

A water tank along the route of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) in San Juan County, Colorado

A woman rides a white stallion across the field to celebrate a Denver Broncos touchdown during the team's National Football League game against the visiting San Francisco 49ers at the Sports Authority Field at Mile High stadium, Denver, Colorado

A young Spiderman, alias Ryan Emerson Alvizo, cavorts in the mile-long 16th Street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

A winding dirt road near Boone in rural Pueblo County, Colorado

A wide stretch of the New River near Sandstone Falls State Park in West Virginia

Abandoned building in Kingwood, West Virginia

Abandoned mining cabin in the San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado

Academy Hall at Potomac State College of West Virginia University, a two-year junior college affiliated as a division of West Virginia University located in Keyser, West Virginia

Academic building at Potomac State College of West Virginia University, a two-year junior college affiliated as a division of West Virginia University located in Keyser, West Virginia

Action a Denver Broncos National Football League game against the visiting San Francisco 49ers at the Sports Authority Field at Mile High stadium, Denver, Colorado

Adjacent art shops and galleries in tiny Blanca, in the San Luis Valley of southwestern Colorado

Aerial view of Denver, Colorado

Al Kicking Bull McAllister, a Navajo and Apache, photographed at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo

All-Faith Chapel at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia

Albert's Chapel, an unusual octagonal Methodist church located near the settlement of Sand Ridge, West Virginia

Albedo sculpture near the parking garage at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Alicia Fischer, Claire Renault, Natalie Rold, Ijah Garfield, Doug Gallob, left to right, are members of a production team who flew from their base in San Francisco to follow American photographer Carol M. Highsmith at work in the field in Colorado

Alpine lake along the high and treacherous one-lane road up from the town of Marble to what is now (except for a handful of summertime-only residents) the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

Alpine lake, beaver lodge, and Rocky Mountain view high above the town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Alpine valley and distant mountains near the timberline in Hoosier Valley, high in the Rocky Mountains of Park County, Colorado, north of Alma

Along a two-lane road lined with old motels that was once a main route into Colorado Springs, Colorado, a billboard promotes Yellowstone National Park, 517 miles away in a straight line and more than 600 miles by road in northwest Wyoming

Alpine lake high with a reflected Rocky Mountain view high above the town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith, and her husband, journalist Ted Landphair, could not resist getting INTO a photograph with some new and evocative Old West friends at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith photographs George Free Spirit Medina, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith could not resist getting INTO a photograph with some new and evocative Old West friends at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith (she's the one on the left) couldn't resist stepping out from behind her camera and joining the fun at the Rogues Gallery antique shop in Hulett, Wyoming

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith, replicating, as well as possible, a pose at Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming by pioneer photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, who inspired Highsmith's career ( )

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith, replicating, as well as possible, a pose at Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming by pioneer photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, who inspired Highsmith's career ( ) (cropped)

American photographer Carol M. Highsmith, replicating, as well as possible, a pose at Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming by pioneer photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, who inspired Highsmith's career

An arched window with a mountain view inside 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

An aging commercial building on Depot Street in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

An authentic chuckwagon, the cook's wagon that accompanied cowboys as they drove cattle across the dusty plains of the early American West, on the rodeo and Frontier Town grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in the Wyoming capital city

An adorable bunny, a ubiquitous sight even on the streets of the large cities of lightly populated Wyoming, one of America's big-sky Rocky Mountain states

An alpine field near Independence Pass along the "Top of the Rockies" road between Aspen and Twin Lakes in Colorado

An attending cowboy approaches a fellow cowpoke whose timed ride has expired at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee Days festival in Laramie, Wyoming

An array of "cowboy hats" at the F.M. Light & Sons western-wear store in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

An active gold-and silver-exploration operation on the dirt Alpine Loop, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado

An all-but-empty horse stall, save for one occupant, off-season at the La Plata County Fairgrounds in Durango, Colorado

An antiques store that is itself an antique in Idaho Springs Colorado

Amya Her Many Horses, a participant from the Wind River (Wyoming) Reservation in dancing, drumming, and other demonstrations of Indian life at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

An array of boots at the F.M. Light & Sons western-wear store in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

An array of hay rolls on a farm in Converse County, Wyoming

An oil derrick that has long marked the spot of an almost two-century-old ferry landing, now (in 2015) named for longtime ferry board president John Eckels, in Sistersville, West Virginia

An etched wooden sign "Amache Japanese Relocation Camp," complete with outlines of buildings, one of the only remnants, save for a few cement foundations a little nearby graveyard, of the Amache Camp, where Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War Two near the town of Granada i

An enormous satellite dish near the visitor center at Colorado State University-Pueblo, the former University of Southern Colorado (and prior to that, Pueblo Junior College), in Pueblo

An illuminated Tommy's Burgers sign in Neon Alley, a public-art project in Pueblo, Colorado, devised by sign collector Joseph Koncilja

An eclectic house in tiny Boone, a little railroad settlement with an even smaller Main Street in Pueblo County, Colorado

An isolated barber shop, and behind it the town grain elevator, in Granada in Prowers County, Colorado

An interpretive display within 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

An old Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco sign, and other advertisements, on a wall in downtown Grafton, West Virginia