Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Beallmore, also known as the William T. Jr., and June Booher House for two of its later residents, is a historic mansion in Wellsburg, West Virginia

Beaumont House in Pueblo, Colorado

Beautiful sunset near the town of Ovid (and close to the Nebraska border) in Sedgwick County, Colorado

Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Beverly Presbyterian Church in the town of Beverly, one of the first settlements west of the Allegheny Mountains, founded in 1790 in the Tygart River Valley of what was then Virginia and is now (in 2015) West Virginia

Beveled glass panel at the Citizens Bank of Ouray, Ouray, Colorado

Bernstein Bros. Auto Parts and Tire Company old, but restored, mural on a building in Pueblo, Colorado

Beyond the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in this aerial view looms the skyline of Denver, Colorado

Bighorn sheep in Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Bighorn sheep on the road in Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Bighorn sheep along the road in Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Big Springs Presbyterian Church in Slaty Fork, a small, unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Blacksmith shop outside the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

Blacksmith shop at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Black Bear Manor Lodging, Ouray, Colorado

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

Bison head above the reception desk of the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Bizarre facade of the Mystery Hole, near Ansted, West Virginia

Bison herd in Weld County, Colorado, near the Wyoming line

Bison trophy head inside the main cabin of the Ranch A Education Center, a complex of buildings, now owned by the State of Wyoming, near Beulah, Wyoming

Boardwalk at downtown Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza

Bluestone Dam in Summers County, West Virginia. At its normal pool level, Bluestone Dam impounds a 10.7-mile stretch of the New River and its tributary, the Bluestone River

Bob Swann of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Jicarilla Apache whose tribe is centered in New Mexico, was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Booth Library on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia

Boulders, much bigger than the usual "fallen rock" seen throughout the Rocky Mountains, that have landed in the rushing Crystal River in west-central Colorado

Boutique in the tiny town of Alma in Park County, Colorado

Bramwell, West Virginia, is a former prosperous coal town that once boasted the largest number of millionaires, per capita, in the United States, and there are plenty of their fine homes remaining to prove it. But this structure in Bramwell is not one of them. Judging by its paint job, one would be

Broncos buck and cowboys hold on for dear life at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee Days festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Buildings along the railroad line through the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Keystone in southern West Virginia

Bronze presidential figures "relax" on a bench in front of an art gallery that occupies the former Routt County National Bank in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Bronze statue of rancher and Wyoming state representative James C. Hageman at the entryway to the Wyoming State Fair grounds in Douglas

Bucking broncos do what comes naturally at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Building in Keyser, West Virginia

Building in Clarksburg, West Virginia

Buffington McGinnis House Huntington, West Virginia

Buffalo dancer Tonio LeFebre, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Buffalo dancers Tonio LeFebre, and his sister, Wanda Jean LeFebre, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Buildings in Grafton, West Virginia

Buildings in the 800 block of Main Street in Wellsburg, West Virginia

Buildings in Ouray, Colorado

Buildings at Centennial Ranch in rural Ouray County, between Ridgway and Montrose, Colorado

Buildings on Capitol Avenue in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Bullriding, at least for a few seconds, at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Bull 1, Rider 0 at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Built in the 1970s as a Pure Oil Co. station in the company's classic, pitched-roof design, the station and repair garage became a Union 76 station in the 1970s before becoming a solely service shop. Welch, West Virginia

Businesses across from the county courthouse in Georgetown, Colorado

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

Bust of Spencer Penrose at the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, also known as Will Rogers Shrine, a commemorative tower and chapel on Cheyenne Mountain high above Colorado Springs, Colorado

Bust of the legendary American humorist at the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, also known as Will Rogers Shrine, a commemorative tower and chapel on Cheyenne Mountain high above Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cabin and obelisk monument at Point Pleaasant Battle Monument State Park, called Tu-Endie-Wei Park locally, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

Cabin in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Cabin in Independence Ghost Town, just off State Highway 82 through the "Top of the Rockies" route through Independence Pass in Pitkin County, below the Continental Divide in the Colorado Rockies

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only road between Marble and Crested Butte

C&H Taxi Company's "Captain Cab" strikes a heroic pose at the Charleston, West Virginia, FestivALL Art Parade, in which theater groups, visual artists, dancers, street performers, art cars, music makers and local organizations parade down Capitol Street. One of the company's taxicabs was one of the

Cabin in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Calf roping at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Cabins in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Cabins, a tipi pole, and the riding ring at the White Mountain Trading Post, a western-themed living-history museum in Fort Garland, in south-central Colorado's San Luis Valley

Campus view of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. The Albert Hall science building is in the foreground

Camp Russel at the Oglebay Park and Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia