Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The distinctive door-pulls of the Chief Theater in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

The distinctive, pale yellow and chocolate brown depot of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, perhaps America's most celebrated steam train, in Durango, Colorado

The Dolmar Power Products Store in Buckhannon, West Virginia

The E.A. Durham House in Sistersville, West Virginia

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train pulls into 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

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is powered up and ready to leave the Durango, Colorado, station

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train has plenty of coal and is ready for departure from Durango, Colorado

The elegant residential section of Main Street in, 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 Elkins-Randolph County Public Library in Elkins, West Virginia

The Elizabeth Apartment building in Wheeling, West Virginia

The Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railroad train pulls into 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

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train chugs northward from Durango through La Plata County, Colorado

The Elizabeth Kee Federal Office Building and Post Office in Bluefield, West Virginia

The Elkhorn Church of God in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Elkhorn in southern West Virginia

The Erickson Alumni Center at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia

The ferocious American grizzly bear can grow to weigh 400, 500, even 700 pounds. One can observe this robust specimen at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The End of the Trail Motel, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Feaster Center and Joe Retton Arena on the campus of Fairmont State University in Fairmont, West Virginia

The expansive Coverley Junkyard in Lamar, the county seat of Prowers County, Colorado

The end of Main Street in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

The entrance to Bent's Old Fort, outside La Junta in Otero County, Colorado

The entrance sign to Camden Park, a 26-acre amusement park just outside Huntington, West Virginia

The First Presbyterian Church in New Cumberland, West Virginia

The First Christian Church building, now (in 2015), the Church of the Living Word in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

The Forever Yours Chapel, a wedding chapel in Pueblo, Colorado

The First Baptist Church in La Junta, Colorado

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

The former Santa Fe Railroad station in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado. At the time of this writing in 2015, it was serving as the town hall

The First Congregational Church 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

The first block of Ivinson Avenue in Laramie, Wyoming

The finished product: Caricaturist Ben Bloss displays his sketch of photographer Carol M. Highsmith in the mile-long 16th Street pedestrian mall in downtown Denver, Colorado

The Fox Theatre in Montrose, Colorado

The front of a junk store whose garage displays a patriotic motif in Moorcroft, Wyoming, says "open," but there can be some doubt about that

The Garfield County Courthouse and county office building in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

The French Gothic Revival-style, Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Pueblo, Colorado

The gold-leaf dome of the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston

The golf course at Wheeling Park in Wheeling, West Virginia

The golf course at the Oglebay Park and Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia

The Gilpin County Arts Association offices and the Gilpin Historical Society in Central City, Colorado

The Glenwood Springs, Colorado, train depot, which also houses the Glenwood Train Museum

The general store in Aladdin, Wyoming

The Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church in Gerrardstown, West Virginia

The general store in Redstone, in the Crystal River Valley of Colorado's Rocky Mountains

The Grafton National Cemetery in Grafton, West Virginia, the first national military cemetery in West Virginia

The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks in the United States, in the city that took its name from it: Moundsville, West Virginia

The grand facade of the La Junta Post Office is one of the architectural gems of La Junta, Colorado's downtown

The Green Joint in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, one of many outlets for the sale of marijuana statewide after Colorado legalized the limited use and sale of small amounts of "pot"

The Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel

The Hampshire County Courthouse in Romney, West Virginia

The historic B&O Railroad bridge over the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

The historic Martinsburg Roundhouse Center in Martinsville, West Virginia

The Hays-Gerrard House in Gerrardsville, West Virginia

The High Gate Mansion in Fairmont, West Virginia

The Henry K. List House, on Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia, was built in 1858, for the president of the City Bank of Wheeling

The Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge, a cantilever bridge over the Ohio River between St. Marys, West Virginiaand Newport, Ohio

The Hassan School of Business building at Colorado State University-Pueblo, the former University of Southern Colorado (and prior to that, Pueblo Junior College), in Pueblo

The historic Entler Hotel, now the city visitors' center, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia

The Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in the Summit Point settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

The headquarters building of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company (also known as Helme Tobacco Company), next to the company's factory in Wheeling, West Virginia

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