Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Various implements outside a blacksmith shop at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

Vic's Route 6 Grillhouse, a restaurant along U.S. Highway 6 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

View across the Kanawha River of Charleston, the capital city of West Virginia

View from high above Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

View from down the tracks at the Northern Ag Service Inc. grain elevator and related equipment in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

View from high above Silverton, best known to tourists as the northern terminus of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, tucked in a deep valley of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

View from an overlook of the American Iron & Metal plant and associated train cars in Pueblo, Colorado

View approaching Steamboat Springs, Colorado

View from above of a dramatic horseshoe bend of the New River, and an interesting entrance and egress of a railroad line, in Hawks Nest State Park, near Ansted, West Virginia

View from the Molas Pass Overlook, almost 11,000 feet high in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado

View from the Garden of the Gods Club, a country club and golf course, of formations in the Garden of the Gods, a public park in Colorado Springs, Colorado

View from the "Million Dollar Highway" below Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

View from the highway of the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County, Wyoming

View of a Rocky Mountain peak and meadow from a precipitous, rock-strewn road that snakes from the town of Marble up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View into the Eagle Butte coal mine in Gillette, in Wyoming's Powder River Basin

View of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and especially the sprawling Broadmoor Hotel resort, from the Will Rogers Shrine to the Sun on Cheyenne Mountain, high above the city

View of buildings with mountain in background. Ouray, Colorado

View of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, from the heights overlooking the city

View of Grafton, West Virginia

View of downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, from Wheeling Island, part of the city that lies on an island in the middle of the Ohio River

View of Dillon Reservoir, high in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, near Silverthorne

View of downtown Princeton, West Virginia, including an old sign from a time when advertising "drugs and drinks" had a more benign connotation. The drugs at the old Spangler's pharmacy were pharmaceuticals, and the drinks were soft

View of downtown Huntington, West Virginia

View of Market Street in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

View of Meridian Lake and Mount Crested Butte above the Colorado city of Crested Butte on the high, dirt Washington Gulch Road in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of Keyser, West Virginia

View of Mountain, Ridgway, Colorado

View of Lake Catamount, a Rocky Mountain reservoir in Routt County, Colorado

View of mural on the side of, and oil production equipment outside the Parkersburg Oil and Gas Museum, in the old W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building in Parkersburg, West Virginia

View of Philippi, West Virginia

View of the Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it heads north through La Plata County from Durango, Colorado

View of the distant San Juan Mountains from a meadow of the James Ranch, above Durango in La Plata County, Colorado

View of the food and western-gear sales area outside the rodeo arena at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road from the town of Marble in the Crystal River Valley up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of the Berkeley Springs Castle, looking up from town. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

View of the Crystal River, a high-Rocky Mountain stream, near the town of Marble, Colorado

View of the Shenandoah River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

View of the Molas Pass area of the San Juan Mountains in San Juan County, Colorado, near Silverton

View of the San Juan Mountains and Animas River Valley in San Juan County, Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as it chugs (at 13 miles an hour) through the San Juan Forest in northern La Plata County, Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG), a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River beneath a foot bridge near the route of Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG), a narrow-gauge railroad that operates 45.2 miles of track between Durango and Silverton in southwest Colorado

View of the rushing Animas River from a Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) train as follows the river on its mountainous journey through San Juan County, Colorado

View of the timberline from 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

View of the Rocky Mountain foothalls above Colorado Springs, Colorado from the Will Rogers Shrine to the Sun on Cheyenne Mountain, high above the city

View of the rushing Crystal River from a precipitous, rock-strewn road that snakes from the town of Marble up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of the West Virginia Wesleyan College campus in Buckhannon, West Virginia

View of Walsh Library building with mountain in background. Ouray, Colorado

View the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayette County, West Virginia

View, focusing on the narrow turret of the Campbell-Hicks House in Huntington, West Virginia

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in downtown Pueblo, Colorado

Vintage fire engine and automobile outside Grand Lake Lodge in Grand Lake, Colorado

Vintage railroad cars belonging to the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley excursion railroad, outside the depot in the tiny settlement of Durbin, near the headwaters of the Greenbrier River in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Vintage locomotive at the Pueblo Railway Museum, next to Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The museum also offers smaller, indoor exhibits in the old Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad's express-freight building across the street

Vintage locomotive and tender at the Pueblo Railway Museum, next to Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The museum also offers smaller, indoor exhibits in the old Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad's express-freight building across the street

Vintage-looking, but quite contemporary, sign promoting the Dostal Alley Saloon and Gambling Emporium (read: casino), in Central City, Colorado

Virginia Ortiz, a member of the Navajo Nation, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Wagon and sign for the Ute Cafe in Fort Garland, Colorado

Wanda Jean LeFebre, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

Walter Larkin and Charlotte Larkin of Colorado Springs, Colorado, were participants in a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city