Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

One usually finds railroad tunnel entrances on remote mountainsides. But this one is right in town, in Kimball, a distressed Appalachian Mountains town in southern West Virginia

One turret of the Berkeley Springs Castle. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Orchard near Gerrardstown in rural Berkeley County, West Virginia

One of Wyoming's "Official Mythological Creatures," the jackalope, in Douglas, Wyoming

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukranian Catholic Church, Wheeling, West Virginia

Ouray National Historic District panel for buildings on block 12: 400-447 Main Street, Ouray, Colorado

Ouray National Historic District panel for buildings on block 10: 600-646 Main Street, Ouray, Colorado

Ouray Inn, Ouray, Colorado

Ouray Hot Springs, Pool. Ouray, Colorado

Ouray Hot Springs, Ouray, Colorado

Outbuildings on the grounds of the Withrow-Montgomery House in Lewisburg, West Virginia, built in 1818 by John Weir for James Withrow, who ran a prosperous tannery nearby. The larger building served as a kitchen and servants' quarters

Outbuilding on the grounds of the Withrow-Montgomery House in Lewisburg, West Virginia, built in 1818 by John Weir for James Withrow, who ran a prosperous tannery nearby. The building served as a kitchen and servants' quarters

Ouray Liquors, Ouray, Colorado

Overview of 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

Overhead view of the railroad yards in Laramie, Wyoming

Overview of 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

Owners Carl and Diane Strode (and two old-time pals) at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

Overview of the railroad line below Capels, an unincorporated Appalachian mountain town high above the city of Bluefield in McDowell County, West Virginia

Pair of barns in Monroe County, West Virginia

Young peach trees in the orchard-filled town of Palisade, outside Grand Junction, Colorado. In the distance is the area's famous Grand Mesa, which, at 40 miles in length, is reputed to be the world's largest mesa, an elevated, flat-topped area of land

Parade of formations in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an international tourist attraction, packed with red-rock formations in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Pansy St. Clair, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Parapet structures at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Parkview, a mansion in the fashionable north Pueblo neighborhood in Pueblo, Colorado

Parrish Larkin, her daughter Nyasia, and her son Chyra, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, were articipants in a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Part of a large industrial complex below Moundsville and along the Ohio River in Marshall County, West Virginia

Part of a vintage steam train and water tower at South Park City Museum, a collection of historic buildings in Fairplay, Colorado

Part of an old Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco sign on a wall in downtown Grafton, West Virginia

Part of the courtyard at Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Part of PVS Technologies' Natrium Facility, along the Ohio River in Marshall County, West Virginia

Part of the vast San Juan National Forest and the mountain range of the same name in the distance near the settlement of Bayfield in southwestern Colorado's La Junta County

Part of the procession at Douglas, Wyoming's, annual Fair Parade held during the state fair, which Douglas hosts. Paraders included Miss Rodeo Wyoming, Little Miss Wyoming, Douglas High School's band and cheerleaders, members of a Christian motorcycle association, and the University of Wyoming's spo

Part of the restored tipple and conveyor structure at Nuttallburg, West Virginia, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing na

Pastoral scene in the Belle Fourche River Valley above Hulett in Crook County, Wyoming

Participants in a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Path and outbuildings at the White House Farm, in the Summit Point Settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

Patti Kindred Spirit Watkins, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People. She is a member of the Cherokee tribe

Patricia Neal Gray, one of the handful of summertime-only residents of Crystal, Colorado, stands before her home

Patrick "Patch" Aucremanne from Bridgeport, West Virginia, takes a break during the annual North Central West Virginia Scottish Festival and Celtic Gathering parade that winds through downtown Clarksburg and ends with a celebration at Clarksburg's First Presbyterian Church

Pence Hall, the student-life building on the campus of Fairmont State University in Fairmont, West Virginia

Penned calves, which from a distance look like pigs in stys, near Alamosa in Alamosa County, Colorado

Peach picker Octaviano Vasquez-Lopez in an orchard in Palisade, outside Grand Junction in a section of western Colorado renowned for its peaches and nectarines

Pedestrian bridge over the tracks and freight-train cars in downtown Laramie, Wyoming

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith, doing what many travelers do as they enter a new state on a long trip: posing at the "welcome" sign at the border. This one, more distinguished than most and made of wood, stands along U.S. 50 just past the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia

Picturesque but slender road to Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing nation's industrial revolution Physical

Pioneer wagons Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Pleasant cottage in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Pond and fountain at Wheeling Park in Wheeling, West Virginia

Pond along which appears one of the installations in "The Nature of Horses" exhibit, by artist Deborah Butterfield, at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Polymer plant along the Ohio River near the settlement of Apple Grove in Mason County, West Virginia

Pool at the Wiesbaden Hot Springs Hotel, a small spa in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. A number of hot springs bubble to the surface in and near Ouray

Population sign in the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County, Wyoming

Portion of the colored-glass sign for the Starlight Lodge hotel in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

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

Public library in the settlement of Paw Paw in Morgan County, West Virginia

Pumphouse in the Arthurdale community near Kingwood, West Virginia

Pueblo, Colorado, trainyards, viewed from the city's Fourth Street Bridge

Pueblo Chamber of Commerce president Rod Slyhoff holds a carved prayer staff, honoring a Navajo Code Talker, at a gathering of Native peoples at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, Colorado

Processing plant at the Wyodak coal mine in the coal-rich Powder River Basin outside Gillette, Wyoming