Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Storefronts in the Union Avenue Commercial District in Pueblo, Colorado

Stone stairway and arch at Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

Stone stairway and picnic shelter at Pinnacle Rock State Park, near Bramwell in Mercer County, West Virginia. The park's sandstone formation rises more than 3,000 feet above its surroundings

Street scene in Charles Town, West Virginia

Streamline Moderne-style Greyhound Bus Station in Huntington, West Virginia

Storm clouds gather over a long dirt road in Albany County, Wyoming

Street characters in the mile-long 16th Street mainly pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

Streamers snap in the wind (they're strung for the state fair in town) in downtown Douglas, Wyoming

Storm clouds over an old water tower in the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County, Wyoming

Storm clouds over the eastern Wyoming prairie, near Hulett

Street view of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Street view, Stephenson's Hotel, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Street view of Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Street view in Ouray, Colorado

Streetscape in the tiny settlement of Durbin, near the headwaters of the Greenbrier River in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

String of locomotives in the CSX rail yards in Huntington, West Virginia

Sumptuous stone house in the historic Pitkin Place residential district in Pueblo, Colorado

Structures on the parapet of Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

Summertime view of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which is more often seen by visitors in wintertime, when skiiers approach and the town's annual Winter Carnival is held

Sunset near Fort Morgan in northeastern Colorado

Sundance, Wyoming's, former high school, about to be, as the sign out front points out, converted into the town museum and cultural center

T.C. Hatter the juggling clown at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Team steer roping, also known as heading and heeling, at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Team USA panel display at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Terrace and alpine garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

The "Loring Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia

The "Harrington Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia

The "fire protection" station in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

That's neither legendary film star Marilyn Monroe nor a crazy woman, but rather a lookalike mannequin inside an old pay-telephone booth at the Crazy Woman Realty office in Hulett, Wyoming

The "Honeymoon Cottage" 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

The "Hall Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia

The "Welcome to Ravenswood" mural in Ravenswood, West Virginia. The George Washington reference pertains to the nation's first president's ownership of lands in the area, which was then the far reaches of western Virginia

The "Old Stone House," as it's known locally, in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout streams, in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains above the town of Marble

The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout streams, in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains above the town of Marble. The white stones on the riverbank are, in fact, scraps of marble from the Colorado Marble Quarry, where high-quality white marble, once a staple of

The "never low in spirits" Double D liquor store in Douglas, Wyoming

The 101-foot-long Sarvis Fork covered bridge in Jackson County, West Virginia, near Sandyville

The "Spirit of the American Doughboy" World War I memorial at Wheeling Park in Wheeling, West Virginia

The "Welcome to Sistersville" mural in downtown Sistersville, West Virginia

The "new" St. Mary's Catholic Church in Breckenridge, Colorado, built near the "old" St. Mary's Church

The (often) rushing Crystal River, a superb trout stream in Central Colorado's Crystal Valley, below Carbondale

The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout streams, in Pitkin County

The 1817 Elm Grove Stone Arch Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia

The abandoned St. Marys Refinery in St. Marys, West Virginia

The 1930s rusticated-limestone Cortez School Administration Building, once a school in Cortez, Colorado. At the time of this image in 2015, it was undergoing extensive rehabilitation

The 3,000-foot-high sandstone formation that gives Pinnacle Rock State Park, near Bramwell in Mercer County, West Virginia, its name

The accoutrements of indoor cooking in the outdoors of tiny Alva, Wyoming

The abandoned Rose Garden (once Robinson Grand) Theater in Clarksburg, West Virginia

The American Heritage Center, part of the Centennial Complex at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

The Alumni House at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

The Albany County Courthouse in Laramie, Wyoming

The American flag-bearer at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee Days festival in Laramie, Wyoming

The alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado

The alpine Lizard Lake at the base Sheep Mountain and Hat Mountain, high above the tiny community of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

The Aladdin Tipple in Aladdin, Wyoming, one of the last surviving coal tipples (as of 2015) in the American West

The Allen log cabin 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

The Alpen Rose RV Park, north of Durango, near the settlement of Hermosa in southwestern Colorado

The Arthurdale Inn in the Arthurdale community near Kingwood, West Virginia

The B&O train station in Philippi, West Virginia

The Anasazi Heritage Center, a museum of the Ancestral Puebloan (or Anasazi) Culture and other Native cultures in the Four Corners region near Dolores in Montezuma County, Colorado