Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

A long Union Pacific freight train approaches near Cisco in Eastland County, Texas

A lizard pauses to evaluate an intruder into its turf on the floor of Palo Duro Canyon in Armstrong County in the Texas panhandle

A long-abandoned stone cabin in dusty Terrell County in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

A long-abandoned pet and feed store in Zephyr, an unincorporated town in Brown County, Texas

A longhorn steer appears to pose in a thicket in rural Kinney County, Texas

A metal chicken, a curiously popular outdoor decoration in Texas, in Anson, the seat of Jones County, Texas

A look at Mexico from bluffs above Roma, a small but historic city along the Rio Grande River in Starr County, Texas

A luxurient field of bluebonnets, the state flower, near Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country

A longhorn steer takes a break from grazing at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas

A longhorn steer takes a break from grazing 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 mashy inlet of Lake Fork in Rains County, east of Dallas in northeast Texas

A long-abandoned Swift and Company facility, high above the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

A metal version of the Texas Lone Star state flag, fashioned on a section of ceiling tin, on a ranch fence in Washington County, Texas

A meticulously restored early Mobil gasoline station in Gonzales, Texas

A massive cloud presages a thunderstorm above Groom, a tiny community along old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

A map of Texas, showing large pockets of Czech immigration, at the Czech Heritage Museum & Genealogy Center in Temple, Texas

A peaceful place to rest among the azaleas at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

A nonfunctioning rocket (so far as we can tell) outside a little store in a place (Rattlesnake Knob) that doesn't exist (so far as we can tell) in Gaines County, Texas, in the peanut-and-cotton-growing country between Hobbs, New Mexico, and Seminole, Texas

A peaceful stretch of the Guadalupe River north of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas

A modern-day replica of the "Come and Get It" flag in Gonzales, Texas

A Mexican officer calls out at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of historic U.S. Route 66 still runs through town

A mountain biker tests a rugged path amid the rock formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in the Texas panhandle

A most unusual set of barstools inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

A onetime gas station, now an art gallery, in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

A onetime bank buiding, now an architect's headquarters, in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

A most unusual justice of the peace office in no discernible town just outside Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which is split between Hudspeth and Culberson counties in Texas, along the New Mexico border. It is unclear whether the justice of the peace presided from the bathtub in front of his or

A onetime gas station and cafe, partially made of large stones in the West Texas vernacular, in the town of Gail, seat of Borden County, Texas

A mission-like building made of vernacular Texas stone in Rio Grande City, Texas, in Starr County

A neon version of the Texas "Lone Star" state flag at the Institute of Texan Cultures, part of the University of Texas at San Antonio

A Mexican officer and cavalryman observe the early action at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

A mixture of farm animals near Mt. Pleasant in Titus County, Texas

A pitched-metal-roof structure, common in rural West Texas, north of Alpine

A portion of a colorful street mural in downtown Brownsville, Texas

A portion of the Amistad National Recreation Area, outside Del Rio in Val Verde County, Texas

A pleasant garden path at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

A pleasant path at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

A portion of Fort Davis National Historic Site in the Texas town of Fort Davis, Texas

A political statement in Deep Ellum, a fast-gentrifying neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas

A perfectly flat wheatfield, worthy of western Kansas. But it's hundreds of miles away, near the tiny town of Groom in the Texas panhandle

A pleasing view of the Pedernales River, which winds through Texas Hill Country

A portion of the "Salt Palace" in the town of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas

A peek through the window of the recreated barber shop at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

A portion of a classic, now-abandoned, western-movie and music-video set in what is now the ghost town of Contrabando in Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas

A piece of an 1840s-vintage log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier Village and Museum at Loy Park in Denison, Texas

A piece of 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

A portion of Fort Leaton, a Texas State Historic Site, on the edge of Presidio, along the Rio Grande River in Brewster County, Texas

A portion of the Lajitas Golf Resort and Spa in Lajitas, an unincorporated town at the spot that separates Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park in southern Brewster County, Texas

A portion of the mansion at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

A portion of the Highland Park Shopping Center, recognized as the nation's first planned shopping center in a unified style with stores facing inward, toward a parking area. The center is in the Highland Park area of Dallas, Texas

A portion of the Highland Park Shopping Center, recognized as the nation's first planned shopping center in a unified style with stores facing inward, toward a parking area, Dallas, Texas

A portion of the Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia, known more commonly as Presidio La Bahia, or simply La Bahia, a fort constructed by the Spanish Army that became the nucleus of the city of Goliad, Texas

A portion of the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden at one location of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which showcases masterworks of 20th-and 21st-century sculpture by artists including

A portion of the Prairie Chapel Ranch in McLennon County, near Crawford, Texas, owned by former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. In this field, they are helping to bring back a tiny part of what was once a tallgrass prairie so vast that it stretched from mid-Texas northward

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

A portion of the garden and decorative pool at Falkenstein Castle, built from scratch as a residence by Kim and Terry Young in the hills below Burnet in the Texas Hill Country

A restored Gulf gasoline station in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

A profusion of the Texas State Flower, subtle bluebonnets, in a field in Boerne, Texas, west of San Antonio

A re-created Shell gasoline station at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

A replica of a most unusual battle flag carried by the Texan army at the Battle of San Jacinto, seen at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto, La Porte, Texas