Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Houses, a barn, and farm buildings north of Cortez in Montezuma County, Colorado

Huge agricultural bins in Pine Bluffs, a small farming community on the Nebraska border in Laramie County, Wyoming

Houses on Wells Street in Sistersville, West Virginia

Huge coal piles at a processing plant along the Ohio River in Ceredo, West Virginia

Humble farmstead outside Gillette, Wyoming

Humble interior of Rehoboth Church, a historic log cabin-style Methodist church in the countryside of Monroe County, West Virginia

Huntington City Hall, Huntington, West Virginia

Imaginative roadside sign for the Wyoming Motel and Cafe in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Imaginative advertising sign in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne. The rider looks more like a pilgrim than a cowboy, however

If you ever wondered where all the old gasoline pumps went when service stations closed or changed business purposes, some of them ended up at what was once an auto-service station, but became a second-hand store in Pine Bluffs, a small farming community on the Nebraska border in Laramie County, Wyo

Ijah Garfield, Natalie Rold, Doug Gallob, Alicia Fischer and Claire Renault, 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

Implements inside an old blacksmith's shop at the West Virginia State Farm Museum, a 50-acre historical tract to which 32 old farm buildings have been relocated, near the Mason County Fairgrounds outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Indian figure outside the entrance to the AA Antiques store along U.S. Highway 550 in rural Ouray County, Colorado actually just south of Montrose in Montrose County

In his studio and art gallery in tiny Hulett, Wyoming, celebrated western artist Bob Coronato stands beside his most famous and controversial painting, of American Indian activist Russell Means

In a cluttered basement workshop in the town of Ridgway, Colorado, John Billings polishes a gold-plated Grammy Awards trophy

In the little Sister Cities Park in downtown Pueblo, Colorado, one finds this monument to Pueblo and one of its SIX sister cities: Puebla, Mexico. Chihuahua, also in Mexico, is one of the others

Information panel: A snapshot of the Geology at Bear Creek Falls in the San Juan Mountains, Telluride, Colorado

Information panal for mural "Harvest Time, McElmo Canyon Peaches" by Artist Brad Goodell in Cortez, Colorado

Interfaith Chapel at West Liberty University, a public university in the West Liberty, West Virginia. The school is West Virginia's oldest institution of higher education

Interior of a "miner's shanty" in one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia

Interior of the Slogar Bar and Restaurant in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Interior of an early 20th-Century married miner's cabin one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia

Interior of the mine superintendent's house in one of the recreated "coal camp" buildings at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, West Virginia

Interior, Citizens Bank of Ouray, Ouray, Colorado

Irregularly placed tombstones at the old Hillside Cemetery, on Boulder Mountain above Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary gold-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

Italianate homes along Chapline Street in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

Jaci Iron Cloud, 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

It takes a tall dinosaur to peer over a deep pit outside the parking garage of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado

Isolated cabin or shed in Crook County, Wyoming

Jar-shaped cooling towers and smokestacks at a chemical plant along the Ohio River, near Belmont in Pleasants County, West Virginia. The cooling towers are often mistaken for similarly shaped ones used a nuclear reactors

Jar-shaped cooling towers and smokestacks at a chemical plant along the Ohio River in Pleasants County, West Virginia. The cooling towers are often mistaken for similar ones used a nuclear power plants

Jackalope in a lovely setting at the Rustic Inn Curio Shop in Douglas, Wyoming

Jefferson Rock, a promontory above Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from which future president Thomas Jefferson exclaimed about the view in 1783

Jimmy Peters, 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

Joanna Perry Tillman and her great-granddaughter, five-year-old Izelyee Herford, members of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Jasmine Pickner-Bell and her baby, Aloysia Hoksi Wincincala Bell, two of the participants 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 capita

John D. Hair's sculpture "Olympic Strength" at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Joe Yazzie Toddy of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Navajo whose tribe is centered in Arizona, was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Kayakers Kris Bjornson (in red) and Daniel Rottinghaus get some late-afternoon exercise in the Arkansas River, in front of a most unusual levee in Pueblo, Colorado

Kane Big Lake, 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

Jump roper sculpture at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Kaylei Weed, her sons Baptiste Lebeau (left) and Earl Lebeau, and her mother, Elaine Ethel Weed, all members of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Jumbled thrift store with a colorful facade in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Kayaker Kris Bjornson gets some late-afternoon exercise in the Arkansas River, in front of a most unusual levee in Pueblo, Colorado

Kayaker Daniel Rottinghaus gets some late-afternoon exercise in the rapids of the Arkansas River, in front of a most unusual levee in Pueblo, Colorado

Kaylei Weed and her sons, two-year-old Earl Lebeau and one-year-old Baptiste Lebeau, members of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Juxtaposed plowed field and a stand of dried corn in Monroe County, West Virginia

Kaylei Weed, her sons Earl Lebeau (left) and Baptiste Lebeau, and her mother, Elaine Ethel Weed, all members of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Keenan House Huntington, West Virginia

Kent (left rear), KC (right) and Cutter Anderson (foreground), members of a family that brought an authentic chuckwagon, the cook's wagon that accompanied cowboys as they drove cattle across the dusty plains of the early American West, to the rodeo and Indian Village grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier

Kirkside, an aptly named little Italianate house in Moundsville, West Virginia

Korean War veteran Lee Goldburn, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

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

Lagoon in the Shofu-en Japanese Garden (Garden of Pines and Wind in English) at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Lagoon at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Lake and fountain at the Oglebay Park and Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia

Lake Molas in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado's San Juan County, below Silverton

Lake Poudre in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Front Range of the spectacular and high Rockies in north-central Colorado

Lake Irene in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Front Range of the spectacular and high Rockies in north-central Colorado

Lake Granby, adjacent to the town of the same name near the southwestern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado