Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Royal, Ca'lea, and Marquita Harris smile while caricaturist Ben Bloss proceeds with his sketches of them as well as an an older Harris daughter, Shanice, not shown, in the mile-long 16th Street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Row of modern Buffalo Trail Cabins in Bluewell, West Virginia

Row of homes along the dirt Pearly Road in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Elkhorn in southern West Virginia

Row of residences in Capels, an unincorporated Appalachian mountain town high above the city of Bluefield in McDowell County, West Virginia

Rudy Tafoya places a small American flag near the headstone of a child who was buried in Chico Cemetery, a windswept country graveyard near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado

Rows of railroad families' cottages 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

Ruins of St. John's Episcopal Church in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Rural abandoned cabin in Morgan County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle

Ruins of Lowry Pueblo, one of the settlements of more than 24 ancient Puebloan tribes from A.D. 500 to 1300 in the Great Sage Plain in what is now Colorado's Montezuma County (and stretching somewhat into neighboring Utah)

Rural scene in Berkeley County, West Virginia

Rural scene in Roane County, West Virginia, near Gandeeville

Rural scene in Jackson County, West Virginia, near Ravenswood

Rural scene near Wheeling in Ohio County, West Virginia

Rural scene in Brooke County, near Bethany, West Virginia

Rural scene near Egbert, east of Cheyenne in Laramie County, Wyoming

Rural scene in Monroe County in southeastern West Virginia

Rural scene near Cass, West Virginia

Rural scene in Hampshire County, West Virginia

Rustic cabins in Upshur County, West Virginia

Rural sheds near Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in rural Montezuma County, Colorado

Ruth Steele is chief executive director of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center and Museum in Pueblo, Colorado

Rustic farm cabin at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

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S.H. Knight's Tyrannosaurus sculpture stands near the entrance to the Geological Museum at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

Sam Iron Cloud (left) and Ian Wolf Arrow, 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 capital city Physical descript

Sam Her Many Horses (left) and Keegan Her Many Horses, 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 capital city Phys

Samuel "Tamehorse" Gallegos, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

San Juan Mountains? Colorado

San Juan Miners' Memorial, Ouray, Colorado

Sandstone Falls, a series of broad but not high waterfalls on wide stretch of the New River in Sandstone Falls State Park in West Virginia

Savage Flats, an early apartment complex in the Avery Street Historic District of Parkersburg, West Virginia

Scene at the Mountain State Carbon Co. industrial plant in Follansbee, West Virginia, which produces coke for area steel mills

Scene along Elk Avenue, the main street of Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado. In the distance is Mount Crested Butte, which gave the town its name

Scene at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Scene from authentic Native American dances at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds of the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

Scene from one of the almost-daily parades through downtown Cheyenne during the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital

Scene from the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Scene on the Cooper Farm in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

Scene in rural Jackson County, West Virginia

Scene in the San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado, along the mostly dirt-and-gravel "Alpine Loop" that, for those in Jeeps and high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles at least, winds up to Ouray, another southern Rocky Mountain mining town

Scenery at Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Scenery in Colorado National Monument, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Scenic views along Route 30 (Lincoln Highway) near Laramie, Wyoming

Score one for the bucking bronco at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Sculptor Avard Fairbanks's statue at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, depicting the changeover of Pony Express riders

Science Hall 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

Sculpture and frolickers in Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza. The building in the distance is the Breckenridge Welcome Center. Breckenridge is "into" sculpture, sponsoring contests for traditional solid kinds and encouraging the creation of elaborate snow sculptures in the wintertime Physic

Sculpture in the Carol Grotnes Belk Sculpture Garden at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sculptures in the Carol Grotnes Belk Sculpture Garden at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Second Presbyterian Church on the west side of Huntington, West Virginia

Several generations of homes in line in 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

Seven-year-old Noah St. Clair, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Shanice, Royal, and Marquita Harris the caricatures just completed by sketch artist Ben Bloss in the mile-long 16th Street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado. Marquita Harris also holds the sketch of her younger daughter, Shanice

Sheep herd in Routt County, Colorado, southeast of Steamboat Springs

Sheep grazing in Monroe County in southeastern West Virginia

Sheep graze near a burned-out cabin in Monroe County, West Virginia

Shecky and Herb, a street musician-dog pair in Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza. We're not certain, but we'd guess that Herb is the dog

Sheep shearer at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Sheds at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

Shirl Bates, a descendant of Choctaws and Cherokees, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People