Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

From the Outside In," a display of photographs on the atria windows of the Harry Ransom Center, an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin

Grape Jelly," the whimsical name of a featured exhibit in the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

Downtown" Crawford, Texas, a tiny McLennon County place that swelled during the presidential administration of George W. Bush, who spent much time at his nearby Prairie Chapel Ranch in the early 2000s. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, spend much time there in the former president's retirement years, bu

Gunfight" at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, a working ranch in Boerne, Texas, whose Old West Town is often used in movies and videos

Rhapsody," a mosaic depicting Austin musicians, by John Yancey, Luis Alicea, and Steven B. Jones in Dr. Charles E. Urdy Plaza in East Austin, a neighborhood of Austin, Texas

Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick roper, bull-whipper & western dancer at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik is the resident gun-twirler, trick roper, bull-whipper & western dancer at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Moo-la-la" the cow, a statue outside the Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville, Texas, promoting the county's standing as the "No. 1 Dairy County in Texas"

Pistol-packin' Paula" Saletnik, whose gun-twirling and-tossing exhibitions channel Annie Oakley at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, a working ranch in Boerne, Texas, whose Old West Town is often used in movies and videos

Pistol-Packin' Paula" Saletnik shows off her Annie Oakley-style gun-twirling and -tossing skills at the Old West town, audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video set at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west o

Pistol Packin' Paula" Saletnik and her horse at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Horses on the Beach," a horseback-riding operation on Padre Island, Texas, is an incomplete description of the experience, as this photograph attests. Some guests get a short excursion aboard the stable's longhorn, as demonstrated by Horses on the Beach's owner, Bennan Wells

Sheriff" Steve Schmidt, a rancher, costumed presenter, and owner of Old West town, an audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video venue at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill

Sheriff" Steve Schmidt, a rancher, costumed presenter, and owner of Old West town, an audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video set at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill C

Texas" sign on an old building in Stanton, Martin County, Texas

Texas Ranger," San Antonio artist Don Hunt's sculpture of a 19th-Century ranger on horseback at the entrance to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas

Uncle Bob" Beringer, a historical interpreter, is photographed on an authentic early-Texas sharecropper's cabin on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

The Treaty," a scupture by artist Michael Boyett, stands in downtown Nacogdoches, Texas

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1940s neon Dr Pepper sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

2-year-old Gavin Olson of Savannah, Texas, a visitor to the Heritage Farmstead Museum, takes a break after feeding piglets and goats at the living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

2-year-old Gavin Olson of Savannah, Texas, a visitor to the Heritage Farmstead Museum, feeds piglets at the living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

2-year-old Gavin Olson of Savannah, Texas, feeds a friendly goat at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

1960s Dr Pepper advertising placard at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

1940s-vintage Dr Pepper neon sign at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

A barge loaded with tourists at the River Walk, also known as the Passeo del Rio, a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of Downtown San Antonio, Texas

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

A 1940s-vintage quonset building at the Porter Farm, also known as Walter C. Porter Farm, near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

A 2014 mural by artist Sunny DeLipsey of Athens, Texas, depicting the early days of the firefighting service in Terrell, Texas, a town east of Dallas

A 19-story-high cross, erected by the nonprofit Cross Ministries along U.S. 40 (the old U.S. Route 66) near Groom in the Texas Panhandle

A barge loaded with visitors plies a portion of the San Antonio River that winds though San Antonio's lively, underground River Walk, which turned an unsightly slum into an international tourist attraction

A barge loaded with visitors pass a row of colorful food and beverage purveyors' umbrellas on a portion of the San Antonio River that winds though San Antonio's lively, underground River Walk, which turned an unsightly slum into an international tourist attraction

A barge loaded with visitors plies a portion of the San Antonio River that winds though San Antonio's lively, underground River Walk, which turned an unsightly slum into an international tourist attraction. Looming in the distance on the streets above is the Tower of the Americas, the theme structur

A band gives it the old one-and-a-two at the annual Texas Polka Festival at Sengelmann's Restaurant in Schulenburg, Texas

A boy and his father set out colorfully decorated, shield or turtleshell-looking play vests for children for sale along the road near Sullivan City in Hidalgo County, Texas

A black cat makes an appearance between some hay rolls outside some sheds in the little town of Bracketville in Kinney County, Texas

A beer sign in Texas that emphasizes the local nature of the national (now international) brewer's facility that turns out beer in the Lone Star State

A boy enjoys a lovely pond and fountain away from the animals at the Houston, Texas, zoo

A barn at President Lyndon B. Johnson's "LJB" Ranch, near Stonewall, Texas

A bench beneath a humble mural in the town of Moody in McLennon County, Texas

A boy and his father set out colorfully decorated, shield, or turtleshell-looking play vests for children for sale along the road near Sullivan City in Hidalgo County, Texas

A beautiful wildflower array in a meadow in Johnson City, Texas

A barge loaded with visitors turns toward a tunnel on the portion of the San Antonio River that winds though San Antonio's lively, underground River Walk, which turned an unsightly slum into an international tourist attraction

A block of "downtown" Crawford, Texas, a tiny McLennon County place that swelled during the presidential administration of George W. Bush, who spent much time at his nearby Prairie Chapel Ranch in the early 2000s. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, spend much time there in the former president's retireme

A carpet store in the historic Myers Building in Sweetwater, Texas. Mayor of Sweetwater in the early 1900s, S.D. Myers, ran a saddlery in this location

A brazen hen on the porch of the "stock-farm house" at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

A camper and her horse at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

A camper's bunk at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

A canine contributor to a parade of vehicles and cowpokes at the Stockyards Station neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

A car dealer in New Braunfels, Texas, near San Antonio, takes its name from a local attraction nearby and throughout Texas "Hill Country": colorful bluebonnet wildflowers

A Chevron chemical plant near Mont Belvieu, east of Houston, Texas

A colorful food stand along the road in the little town of Havana in Hidalgo County, Texas

A cigar-store Indian and a plethora of beads meet for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

A colorful refreshment stand in the town of North Escobares in Starr County, Texas

A colorful rendition of the American flag, painted on the side of a large utility shed in the town of Carbon in Eastland County, Texas

A colorful refreshment stand in the tiny town of Escobares, near the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

A cluttered alley off Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

A classic "woodie" station wagon, redesigned as art, stands outside the Texas Surf Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas

A dairy cow stars in this mural on the side of a building in downtown Cameron, Texas, in Milam County

A cow skull that's part of the garden ornamentation at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and birding center in McAllen, Texas