Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Martin Cavlon, a driver who carries peaches from in an orchard to a sorting house in Palisade, outside Grand Junction in a section of western Colorado renowned for its peaches and nectarines

Mary F. Shipper Library 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

Masonic Hall in Grafton, West Virginia

Masonic Hall, 222 Richmond Street, Huntington, West Virginia

Masonic statue outside the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Wheeling, West Virginia

Massive machinery at work in the open-pit Wyodak coal mine in the coal-rich Powder River Basin outside Gillette, Wyoming

Mask at the Kultur House in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia. The building houses the Helvetia general store, post office, and alpen lodge, and Fasnacht mask museum

Masonic Lodge No. 124 in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Mary Jane Goggles, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Masqued royal 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

Meadow and mountain view from the high, dirt Washington Gulch Road in Gunnison County, Colorado

Meadow and mountain view east of Rifle in Garfield County, Colorado

Meadow and Rocky Mountain view in Gunnison County, Colorado

Meadow and mountain view near Rye in Pueblo County, Colorado

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

Meadows and Rocky Mountain foothills outside the town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Memorial Methodist Church in the Summit Point settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

Memorial Fountain on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia

Memorial Park, a municipal park adjacent to Huntington, West Virginia's, Memorial Arch, a grand memorial to the fallen in World War I that recalls the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

Members of the Northern Wind Dancers from Pueblo, Colorado, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city: rear left to right, Jarod Figueroa and his father, Raul Figueroa

Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association of active and retired American Indians in U.S. military service, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Meridian Lake in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado along the alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above the city of Crested Butte. The mountain in the distance is Mount Crested Butte, from which the city gets its name

Mimes Joseph A. Temple (the "strangler") and Mikki Weber (the "stranglee") emote in the mile-long 16th Street mainly pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Miniature models of cabins at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Mimes Joseph A. Temple (upright) and Mikki Weber emote in the mile-long 16th Street mainly pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Miranda Heise and her mother, Debra Heise, stand in front of the cabin where Debra spent her summers in Crystal, Colorado

Mineral-water pool at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Mimes Mikki Weber, left, and Joseph A. Temple emote in the mile-long 16th Street mainly pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Modern homes on a hillside above Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

Model of Cabin No. 8 at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Model of a cabin at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Model of an Old West stagecoach in a vendor's space at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

Montrose Public Library in Montrose, Colorado

Monument to Henry Bourne Joy, the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association, along America's first automobile road near Laramie, Wyoming

Morgantown High School in Morgantown, West Virginia

Morgan's Mount Vernon Farm of Southside, West Virginia

Moose 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

Morning Star Moses Weed, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin. Mr. Weed, 102, is one of the tribe's revered elders

Mosaic mural at the Columbia Gas Building in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

Marcellina Mountain, seen from County Road 12 (Kebler Pass Road) leading to the city of Crested Butte from the North Fork Valley in Gunnison County, Colorado. The view of Marcellina Mountain is from the west. Note that the filename of this image is mislabeled as "Mount Crested Butte." Physical descr

Mountain view along the "Million Dollar Highway" between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

Mountain view along the "Million Dollar Highway" in Ouray County, between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

Mountain stream along 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

Mountain and pond view along Independence Pass in Pitkin County, at one of many high places in Colorado where the Continental Divide zigzags through the Rocky Mountains. The adjacent road is known as the "Top of the Rockies" route for good reason

Mountain pine-beetle infestation damage to Rocky Mountain ponderosa and lodgpole pines in Routt County, Colorado

Mountain sheep 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

Mounted cowboys Elisha Robertson (left) and Yancey Gullivan converse at the White Mountain Trading Post, a western-themed living-history museum in Fort Garland, in south-central Colorado's San Luis Valley

Mounted cowboy Elisha Robertson at the White Mountain Trading Post, a western-themed living-history museum in Fort Garland, in south-central Colorado's San Luis Valley

Mountain view from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it chugs northward (at 13 miles an hour) from Durango through La Plata County, Colorado

Mounted cowboys Elisha Robertson (left) and Yancey Gullivan at the White Mountain Trading Post, a western-themed living-history museum in Fort Garland, in south-central Colorado's San Luis Valley

Mounted (and buckboard-riding) cowboys and cowgirls ride down Capitol Avenue in one of several parades during the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the city of the same name. The Wyoming Capitol is visible behind the riders

Mules in the valley threaded by Hoosier Pass, high in Colorado's Rocky Mountains straddling Park and Summit counties. This pass is the highest point on the TransAmerica Trail, a transcontinental bicycle route that stretches from Yorktown, Virginia, to Astoria, Oregon

Mule deer skitter across a field in Campbell County, Wyoming

Multi-colored hillsides in Crook County, Wyoming, near Devil's Tower National Monument

Mural by Sherd Maynard, Jr., in downtown Buckhannon, West Virginia

Mural on the seawall Huntington, West Virginia

Murals on the seawall Huntington, West Virginia

Murals at Pueblo, Colorado's, Downtown Bar and Pirates Cove depict Hollywood movie stars and other celebrities

Musician Donavon Cline and his adoring dog Boston in the mile-long 16th Street mainly pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Murphy's Drug Store 211 Bridge Street, Huntington, West Virginia