Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Crops at sunset near Longmont in Colorado's "Front Range" of the Rocky Mountains

Crude but beloved memoral to Prunes, a favorite pack burro, who apparently lived a long life despite its burdens, in the mines of Fairplay, Colorado

Crooked cabin at the Hillbilly Hot Dogs stand along West Virginia Route 2 along the Ohio River in rural Cabell County. The stand is augmented by several displays that make light of the state's pejorative hillbilly stereotype

Creative fencing in Idaho Springs Colorado. Fitting, too, given the popularity of skiing in this and other nearby Rocky Mountain towns

Curious architectural detail on a wall leading to the Berkeley Springs Castle. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Customers and friends Stacey Poppinga, Brian Harding, Sherry and Craig Dumwright, Darin Houston, David Young, and Sandy Lange (left to right), hang out with a couple of old-West friends at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

Customers patronize a roadside stand in Princeton, West Virginia, that sells, among other things, Confederate battle flags and other paraphernalia of the defeated southern states in the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s

D. Michael Thomas's "Breakin' Through" statue at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. The statue evokes the university's "Cowboys" sports nickname ("Cowgirls" in the case of women's teams), and the state nickname as The Cowboy State

Danny Kollaja, better known as Lanky the Clown, acting up at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Dallas reunion tower

Dallas night skyline

Davis Hall, a dormitory and conference center 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 Virigina

Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church in Elkins, West Virginia

Deanne M. Ferris, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Darwin St. Clair, chairman of the governing business council (and thus effectively chief) of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Darwin St. Clair, and his daughter, nine-year-old Sandra St. Clair, members of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

David Johnson, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People, is a member of the Apache Nation

Decorative ceiling detail at the Stephen Decatur Lawrence Homestead, Opal Lawrence Historical Park, Mesquite, Texas

Farmhouse near Bunker Hill in Berkeley County, West Virginia

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

Denver Broncos star quarterback Peyton Manning prepars to throw a pass 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

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado

Deer trophy head and a cow skull over the bar at Doc Holliday's Tavern in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Deer in the tall grass below Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming

DesireÆe E. Guerra of Fountain, Colorado, a Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux whose tribe is centered in South Dakota, was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Farm scene in Preston County, West Virginia

Farmhouse and small barns in a Monroe County, West Virginia, autumnal rural scene

Detail of the Randolph County Courthouse in Elkins, West Virginia

Detail of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) Building, hosting Elks Club Lodge #90 in Pueblo, Colorado

Detail of the wall of a sun-dappled building in Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Details on the Harrison County Courthouse in Clarksburg, West Virginia

Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, by indigenous American Indians, in northeastern Wyoming

Diesel locomotives pull a long string of tanker cars through the town of Rocky Ford in Otero County, Colorado

Diesel locomotive and what seems like an endless line of hopper cars on tracks in Lamar, Colorado

Direction signs to local points of interest in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Display at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Distant view of the Garden of the Gods, a public park in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Display of stuffed mountain lions and their prey at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado

Distant hay bales and ranch house in Rabbit Ears Pass, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Distant view of a barn on the grounds of the Stephen Decatur Lawrence Homestead, Opal Lawrence Historical Park, Mesquite, Texas

Distant view of the vast mesa that gives Mesa County, Colorado, and Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, their name

Distant view of Crested Butte, a Gunnison County, Colorado, town set high in the Rocky Mountains

Display of a stuffed elk at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado

Display window at Lou Taubert's Ranch Outfitters, a venerable western-wear store in Casper, Wyoming

Do-it-yourself photo op at the Hillbilly Hot Dogs stand along West Virginia Route 2 along the Ohio River in rural Cabell County. The stand is augmented by several displays that make light of the state's pejorative hillbilly stereotype

Docked coal-filled barges and a passing tugboat on the Ohio River, below Moundsville in Marshall County, West Virginia

Door detail at Centre Market in Wheeling, West Virginia

Donovan Burress, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Downtown building in Philippi, West Virginia

Downtown Buckhannon, West Virginia

Downtown block that includes the Robey Theatre in Spencer, West Virginia

Downtown Breckenridge, Colorado

Downtown Bluefield, West Virginia

Downtown buildings in Spencer, West Virginia

Downtown Weston, West Virginia

Downtown Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

Downtown New Martinsville, West Virginia

Downtown Ouray, Colorado

Downtown corner in an artsy section of downtown Laramie, Wyoming

Downtown PRT station in Morgantown, West Virginia