Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Large barn at the Ranch A Education Center, a complex of buildings, now owned by the State of Wyoming, near Beulah, Wyoming

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

Large barn in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Land and air-based dinosaurs, or least their skeletons, cavort in a garden in New Castle, Colorado

Larger-than-life Old West characters at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

Large grain bins in Hulett, Wyoming

Large, classic American Foursquare houses on 21st Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia

Large barn, painted for fall and a long line of plastic-wrapped hay bales outside, ready for storage. Monroe County, West Virginia

Laurel Lodge #104, a Masonic hall in Danese, West Virginia

Law and land office building in Wellsburg, West Virginia

Late-1800s commercial building moved to South Park City Museum, a collection of historic buildings in Fairplay, Colorado

Leslie Larkin of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a Lenape and Navajo whose tribes are centered Delaware and Colorado, respectively, was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Lewis Cottage 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

Library of East High School in Denver, Colorado

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

Like tourist attractions such as large amusement parks that draw audiences from great distances, the F.M. Light & Sons western-wear store dots the prairies and mountain valleys of western Colorado with small, distinctive yellow highway signs, sort of mini-billboards, promoting the store in Steamboat

Lion at the gate of the Berkeley Springs Castle. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Little building in Huntington, West Virginia, with a fascinating history

Linda Solani and her daughter, Megan Solani, 16, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Llamas and an affectionate farm cat at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Littlepage Stone Mansion in Charleston, West Virginia

Llamas at the petting zoo of the Heritage Farm Museum and Village in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Lobby murals. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Paducah, Kentucky

Lobby. Federal building at 300 N. Los Angeles Blvd. in Los Angeles, California

Log cabin 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

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 3 at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Log cabins in the Summit Point settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

Log cabins 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

Locomotive No. 4 literally blows off steam at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Local history, told in a nutshell on a sign in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 4 chugs into the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Longhaired Highland cattle graze near Ridgway in Ouray County, Colorado

Long-decommissioned diesel locomotive parked in Philippi, West Virginia

Long-abandoned cabins in Crook County, Wyoming

Looking north on Main Street in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

Longhorn cow art in Moorcroft, Wyoming

Low, cottage-style row houses in Cortez, Colorado

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

Lots of bicycles, a common sight in health-conscious Colorado, lie outside a cottage in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Madie Carroll House, Huntington, West Virginia

Lush field and distant mountains near Lowry Pueblo ruins at the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in far-southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County

Madie Carroll barn Huntington, West Virginia

Lush fields and a seemingly endless dirt road near Lowry Pueblo ruins at the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in far-southwestern Colorado's Montezuma County

Lush fields under threatening skies in Montezuma County, Colorado

Luke Heise and his mother, Debra Heise, in Crystal, Colorado

Main house at the Stephen Decatur Lawrence Homestead, Opal Lawrence Historical Park, Mesquite, Texas

Main house at the White House Farm, in the Summit Point Settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

Main Hall, the administration building at West Liberty University, a public university in the West Liberty, West Virginia. The school is West Virginia's oldest institution of higher education

Main cabin at the Ranch A Education Center, a complex of buildings, now owned by the State of Wyoming, near Beulah, Wyoming

Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barn sign in Petersburg, West Virginia

Majestic view from the old, one-way, dirt Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Front Range of the spectacular and high Rockies in north-central Colorado

Main Street commercial building in Bramwell, known as the "Millionaires' Town in West Virginia's Southern Coalfields," which extended for 40 miles from Bramwell, which, it is said, once housed more millionaires per capita than any other town in America in the late 1800s

Make-believe moonshine still 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

Main Street in Fowler, Colorado

Mansion House Museum, Oglebay Park, Wheeling, West Virginia

Mancos Public Library in Mancos, Colorado

Mark Warner's "Apollo" statue on the campus of Alderson Broaddus University in Phillippi, West Virginia

Marshy Dell, also known as the McKown House, built in 1770 in Gerrardstown, West Virginia

Markers that represent 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 in Prowers County, Colorado