Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Caricaturist Ben Bloss draws a sketch of Shanice Harris in the mile-long 16th Street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia, one of four Carnegie Hall performance centers still in the use (as of 2015) in the United States

Carved Civil War figures outside the Camp Bed and Breakfast Inn, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Carriage house at Yellowwood, a log structure in The Boulevards, an exclusive neighborhood of Huntington, West Virginia

Carol M. Highsmith at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Carol Chatelain of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Choctaw whose tribe is centered in Mississippi, was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Carved cowboy outside Doc Holliday's Saloon in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Carol M. Highsmith with camera at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Carved prospector carved art at the Starlight Lodge hotel in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Catamount statue 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

Catchy iron figures above a ranch entrance in Converse County, Wyoming, near Douglas

Cathy Shoyo StandingRock, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Cattle in a Rocky Mountain meadow north of Kremmling in Grand County, Colorado

Celebrated western artist Bob Coronato in his studio and art gallery in tiny Hulett, Wyoming

Central Christian Church in Huntington, West Virginia

Charles Bibby and his children: Krista, age 4, and Isaih, age 10, all of Choctaw descent, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Charles Washington Hall, under renovation in downtown Charles Town, West Virginia

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

Chris Navarro's "Wyoming Cowboy" statue at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. The school's athletic nickname is "Cowboys" ("Cowgirls" in the case of women's teams)

Chimney Rock National Monument, a 4,726-acre U.S. national monument in San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado

Christ Episcopal Church in Douglas, Wyoming

Church of the Assumption in Keyser, West Virginia

City leaders hold carved prayer staffs honoring individual Navajo Code Talkers at a gathering of Native Peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado

City Hall in Pueblo, Colorado

Classic Mail Pouch barnside advertisement in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia, near Romney

Coal trains on what were once bustling passenger rail lines of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as well in Grafton, West Virginia, which was an early B&O hub

Closed sign for Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia

Coal yard below Moundsville, on the Ohio River in Marshall County, West Virginia

Colorful commercial buildiongs in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

Colorful Ethiopian restaurant, called the "Ethiopian Restaurant," in Denver, Colorado

Colorful Ferris wheel at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Colorful Ferris wheel at dusk at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Colorful downtown building in Elkins, West Virginia

Colorful supply of fish lures and hooks at the Cutthroat Anglers fly-fishing shop in Silverthorne, Colorado

Colorfully painted vintage automobile, which just happens to match the colors of nearby blossoms this time of year, in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

Colorful ranch buildings near Twin Lakes, at the base of Mount Elbert in Lake County, Colorado. The little settlement effectively forms the eastern end of the winding "Top of the Rockies" route through Independence Pass from Aspen on the western end

Colorful hotel and bar in the tiny town of Alma in Park County, Colorado

Colorful signs, trophy heads, bar paraphernalia, even a jackalope, inside the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming

Commercial block in the distressed Appalachian town of Northfork, West Virginia

Complex interior architecture of the Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado

Columns of marble that were once part of the Colorado-Yule Mining Company's thriving processing mill's foundation in the tiny town of Marble in Colorado's Crystal River Valley still stand at what is now a U.S. National Historic Site

Combination town-limit sign, cigarette ad, and gas pumps outside the general store in Aladdin, Wyoming

Convergence of the Potomac River and smaller Shenandoah River, as seen from the heights of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Coolfont Manor House, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Cooper House, home to the American Studies program at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

Continental Divide sign high in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Front Range of the spectacular and high Rockies in north-central Colorado

Cooking class and cookware demonstration and sale at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Contented deer forage in Pipestem Resort State Park in Mercer County, West Virginia

Corridor with art display at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Cottage in Redstone, in the Crystal River Valley of Colorado's Rocky Mountains

Courtroom at Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and Annex, London, Kentucky

Courtroom spectators' chairs inside the Crook County Museum in Sundance, Wyoming

Courtyard and interior structures at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Courtroom. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Cowgirls chat in the staging area of a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Cow skulls outside the main barn at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

Cow skull against a barn at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

Craft shop in the Arthurdale community near Kingwood, West Virginia

Cows in a cowpen in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

Crispin Center, the golf clubhouse at Wheeling, West Virginia's, Oglebay Park, a self-supporting municipal park, resort and conference center