Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

A resident chicken in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

A ranch entrance, dramatically bracketed by oilfield pumpjacks, in Gonzales County, Texas

A pumpjack, sometimes referred to as a "grasshopper" oil pump because of its appearance, in rural Gray County, near Pampa in the Texas panhandle

A reminder, in the grass behind the Big Texan Steak Ranch, a popular Amarillo, Texas, restaurant, of the days when the old, two-lane U.S. Route 66 wound through town

A restored Gulf service station in Albany, Texas. The gasoline pumps were gravity-driven; the low pumps in the center island dispensed kerosene

A remarkably detailed and ornate artistic relief considering its location: on the facade of a trailer-park eatery in the vibrant South Austin neighborhood below the Texas capital city

A pretty field of bluebonnets, the Texas State Flower, near Marble Falls in Burnet County in the Texas Hill Country

A representation of the sign for the Texas portion of the old U.S. Highway 66, posted during a short portion of that road still existing in Amarillo, Texas

A pumpjack, sometimes called a "grasshopper" oil pump because of its appearance, on the outskirts of Electra, a small city in Wichita County, Texas

A rich array of wisteria shields a house in Burnet in the Texas Hill Country

A row of palm trees in the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, on the Rio Grande River border with Mexico in Hidalgo County, Texas

A rusted old truck and remnants of a "Fort Worth Spudder" in Marfa, Texas

A rusted old truck in Marfa, Texas

A rock formation at Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

A scene from Johnson Park, a city park in Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country

A sign at the humble station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalan, formally known as the Los Ebanos-Diaz Ordaz Ferry, a hand-operated cable car/pedestrian ferry that travels across the Rio Grande River between Los Ebanos, Texas and Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, in Mexico Physical desc

A sign at the humble ferry station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalan, formally known as the Los Ebanos-Diaz Ordaz Ferry, a hand-operated cable car/ pedestrian ferry that travels across the Rio Grande River between Los Ebanos, Texas and Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, in Mexico Physic

A small natural-gas facility in Webb County, Texas, north of Laredo

A small natural-gas facility near the town of Carrizo Springs in Dimmit County, Texas

A small public library in Valentine, Texas

A sign proclaiming the downtown area, but not showing much of a downtown, of Robert Lee, the county seat of Coke County, Texas

A small cemetery in Los Ebanos, a small settlement named for the ebony trees that once grew in profusion here along the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

A small, colorfully decorated villa, complete with watchdog, in Los Ebanos, a settlement on the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

A small, centrally located community building in the old German-immigrant settlement of Gruene, now part of New Braunfels, Texas

A small Mexican restaurant in Gonzales, Texas

A sort of visual ode to the horse near the entrance to a farm in Hopkins County, Texas

A small and colorful Czech figure at the Czech Heritage Museum & Genealogy Center in Temple, Texas

A stream that runs through the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

A statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, part of his "Wings of the City" exhibit outside the Brownsville, Texas, Museum of Fine Art

A Texas "welcome center" near the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and U.S. 83 in Laredo, Texas

A tavern that has lost its name, and its clientele, in little Van Horn, Texas

A storefront in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts and entertainment venues near downtown in Old East Dallas, Texas

A talking electric-company lineman figure above a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

A statue of legendary Texas oilman H.L. Hunt at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas

A tattered advertising sign that borrowed the motif of the Texas state "lone star" flag

A statue of rock-'n'-roll legend Buddy Holly, the centerpiece of a walk of fame that honors other West Texas musicians in Holly's hometown of Lubbock, Texas

A steer skull and horns, one of the genuine Old West possessions displayed inside a bunkhouse, a small railroad office moved to the location and converted for ranch use, on a ranch owned by Annie Young Shelton and Ferol Shelton near Clarendon in the Texas panhandle

A spotted donkey and 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

A stretch of the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, Texas

A statue of President Lyndon B. Johnson on the Texas State Parks' portion of the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall in the Texas Hill Country

A stretch of the Pedernales River between Fredericksburg and Kerrville in Gillespie County, Texas

A structure whose owner has identified with the Jumano Apache people, in the little settlement of Redford inside Big Bend Ranch State Park, along the Rio Grande River in extreme South Texas

A trailer, or RV, park with U.S. and Texas flags a-flying in Carrizo Springs, Texas

A view of the Rio Grande River, looking generally west, in Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, the United States to the right

A Texas flag, executed in metal, at the masonic lodge hall the Fort Griffin townsite, near the U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin in Shackelford County, Texas

A view of three prominent San Antonio, Texas, towers

A view of the Rio Grande River, looking generally west, in Big Bend Ranch State Park, Brewster County, Texas. The United States to the right, a sliver of Mexico on the left

A view of the Rio Grande River, looking generally west, in Big Bend Ranch State Park, Brewster County, Texas. The rock formation to the right is in the United States, the sliver of green to the left in Mexico

A Texas-sized obstacle at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas. We cannot confirm that it includes the rear portion of a Texas armadillo

A three-story, Victorian-style home in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, that (as of 2014) functioned as Granny Lou's Bed & Breakfast Inn

A turtle glides through the water at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi

A wall colorfully painted with the likeness of the Texas flag, complete with a 3-D star, in the little town of Asherton in Dimmit County, Texas

A welcome sign, erected by the FFA (Future Farmers of America) and FHA (Future Homemakers of America) clubs at the local high school in Zephyr, an unincorporated town in Brown County, Texas

A whimsical dinosaur figure on Lone Star Ranch Road, which connects Big Bend National Park with its state equivalent, Big Bend Ranch State Park, in southern Brewster County, Texas

A visitor checks out the grand champion steer at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

A well-worn holster and revolver, two of the genuine Old West possessions displayed inside a bunkhouse, a small railroad office moved to the location and converted for ranch use, on a ranch owned by Annie Young Shelton and Ferol Shelton near Clarendon in the Texas panhandle

A wall of the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

A vintage Ford, owned by Pattillo Higgins, displayed at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

A vintage Dr. Pepper soft-drink outdoor advertisement in Anson, the seat of Jones County, Texas

A yet-to-be-restored ruin at U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin, now a National Park Historic Site in Shackelford County, Texas