Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Walnut Grove, a historic home just outside Union, West Virginia, in Monroe County that began, in the 1760s, as two adjoining log cabins, built by Michael Erskine, Jr., that were steadily improved and added to

Walsh Library, Ouray, Colorado

War Memorial Stadium at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. The stadium's logo evokes the university's sports teams' nickname: the Cowboys

War Memorial Stadium (Laramie, Wyoming)

Water conduit in Ouray, Colorado

Well and log cabins in the Summit Point settlement of Jefferson County in West Virginia's eastern panhandle

Weathered barn in Berkeley County, West Virginia

Wesley United Methodist Church (formerly the First Methodist Episcopal Church) in Morgantown, West Virginia

Webster Cottage at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia

Well-worn bricks, including several bearing the imprint of their maker in a neighborhood of Huntington, West Virginia

Well-worn barns in rural Mason County, West Virginia, near the settlement of Apple Grove

Weirton, West Virginia viewed from across the Ohio River in Ohio

Weathered and damaged old barn in rural Pueblo County, Colorado, near the little railroad settlement of Boone

Weathered but apparently sturdy old barn in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Weltzheimer's Tavern in Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Wesley Chapel on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan University in Buckhannon, West Virginia

West Virginia School for Deaf building, Romney, West Virginia

West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia

Western Hotel, Ouray, Colorado

West Virginia's New River Gorge and the river, one of the oldest in North America, that gives it its name in Fayette County, West Virginia

Western re-enactor Len Peters at the Frontier Town section on the rodeo grounds at the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

Westphal Hose Co. fire house No. 5 in Martinsburg, West Virginia

What seems like an endless coal train passes beneath a bridge overlooking the expansive trainyard in La Junta, Colorado

What's left of the old Ute Cafe in Fort Garland, Colorado

White Mountain Apache Gilbert Redsleeves, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People

What was once, but is no longer, a deluxe house trailer in Alva, Wyoming

Wide point of the Colorado River outside Rifle in Garfield County, Colorado

Wild field near the town of Granada in Prowers County, Colorado

Why did the doe cross the road (or in this case, a golf-cart line) in Twin Falls Resort State Park in Wyoming County, West Virginia. She was silent on the matter

Will Yaska of Pueblo, Colorado, a Koyukon (an Alaska Native Athabaskan people), was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

William R. Roberts, a member of the governing Business Council of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Windmill beneath distant red rocks on the grounds of the Bar D Chuckwagon, a supper club, western stage show, and small Old West heritage town on the outskirts of Durango, Colorado

Winding path and ground squirrel at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado

Wilson Lodge, a 271-room lodge in Wheeling, West Virginia's, Oglebay Park, a self-supporting municipal park, resort and conference center

Window of the Silver Club Saloon in New Castle, Colorado

Window of the Space Cowboy Smoke Shop, which calls itself "the highest head shop in the world," in Breckenridge, Colorado

Wood carvings at the Rusty Moose store along U.S. Highway 550 in Ouray County, between Ridgway and Montrose, Colorado

Wood carvings at the Rusty Moose store along U.S. Highway 550 in Ouray County, between Ridgway and Montrose, Colorado actually just south of Montrose in Montrose County

Wooden carving depicting an American Indian along U.S. 34, the route to Rocky Mountain National Park between Loveland and Estes Park in Larimer County, Colorado

Wool studio in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado.

Wright Opera House, Ouray, Colorado

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

Would-be racecar drivers at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas

Yellowwood, a low-lying log structure in The Boulevards, an exclusive neighborhood of Huntington, West Virginia

Zachary Taylor Wellington house, Huntington, West Virginia

You may have to look carefully to spot the fly fisherman along the banks of the Big Thompson River in Larimer County, Colorado

Zion Church of the Heavenly Sunlight, an evangelical church in the distressed Appachian Mountains town of Kimball, West Virginia

Zion Presbyterian Church in tiny Helvetia, once a Swiss colony in Randolph County, West Virginia

Dunnum Family's Top of the Town dairy farm near Westby in Vernon County, Wisconsin

A portion of downtown Bucyrus, Ohio

A swimming pool and supply building made of huge shipping containers, the kind piled high on seagoing vessels, in the "Taxi" district of the RiNo, or River North, neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. There are hundreds of other buildings, including entire work-live complexes, made of containers in this

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana (looking west-southwest)

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on Lucas Oil Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium that replaced the RCA Dome as the home field of the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts in 2008.

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known.

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State Fairgrounds Speedway auto-racing track

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana

Aerial view of the Butler University campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Amish farm in Elkhart County, Indiana

Art deco "Library" detail at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Toledo, Ohio