Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Building facade in downtown El Paso, Texas

Building housing the Harlan J. Smith Telescope at the McDonald Observatory, an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

Buffaloes 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, checks on one of the ranch's buffaloes. Schmidt, a rancher and retired B52 pilot, owns the operation Physical descripti

Bucolic scene at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Buffalo Bill-looking metal-art vendor at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Building detail in downtown Fort Worth, Texas

Buffaloes, or American bison, at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, a working ranch in Boerne, Texas, whose Old West Town is often used in movies and videos

Buildings on the square surrounding the Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown, Texas

Buildings on Frank Street, Grand Saline, Texas

Bull riding at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Bull throws its rider at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

By design there is a gap in the United States-Mexican border-security fence. It allows U.S. travelers to visit the Rabb Plantation, part of the Sabal Palm Sanctuary along the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas

Bust of Robert Ripley, originator of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, at the attraction's location in Grand Prairie, Texas

Bust of Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, who, with his brother Aubrey, opened a feed store in little Pittsburg, Texas

Buttes along the road between Alpine, Texas, and Big Bend National Park in Brewster County

Butterflies flutter amid the foliage of the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Corpus Christi, Texas

Business dried up long ago at this particular Yeats Pecan Farm processing plant location in little Roby, Texas, northwest of Abilene. The building functioned for awhile as a second-hand store before being abandoned

Calf roping at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Cacti along Texas Farm Road 1111 in Hudspeth County, Texas

Cacti in a field along Park Road 4S, east of Longhorn State Park in Texas

Caitlin Cavannaugh of Chicago, Illinois, a company member of the Texas Shakespeare Festival at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Nutty Brown Cafe advertising sign on the road from Johnson City to Kerrville, Texas

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains of more than 60,000 people, including black "buffalo soldiers" (whose headstones are shown here), Mormon pioneers, Texas rangers, and gunfighters, including John Wesley Hardin. El Paso, Texas

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains of more than 60,000 people, including black "buffalo soldiers," Mormon pioneers, Texas rangers, and gunfighters, including John Wesley Hardin

Calvin Osife, whose heritage traces to the Navajo people of Chinle, Arizona, pictured with his wife, Jennifer, and daughter, Dakota Prairie Rose, at the Celebrations of Traditions Pow Wow, an official Native American Pow Wow that is part of the annual, month-long Fiesta San Antonio in Texas Physical

Calvin Osife, whose heritage traces to the Navajo people of Chinle, Arizona, wears a Northern traditional dress at the Celebrations of Traditions Pow Wow, an official Native American Pow Wow that is part of the annual, month-long Fiesta San Antonio in Texas

Canned goods and canning jars at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Canning jars at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Campers enjoy some moments of fun on the Guadalupe River at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Canal that winds through the upscale neighborhood of Las Colinas in Irving, Texas

Close-up of a lovely horse at the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch near Venus, Texas

Campers and their horses at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Canoers set off to navigate the Rio Grande River between the sheer rock faces of Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, the United States to the right

Canoers approach a dramatic gorge on the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is on the left, the United States to the right

Canopied dirt road through the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Carlos Lara of the Los Liberadores group at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Carefully restored old gas station in Gonzales, Texas

Caricatures on the side of a Wimpy's Restaurant in a working-class neighborhood of Dallas, Texas

Carnival scene at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Carnival game at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas

Carnival scene at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Carnival scene at dusk outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Carnival scene outside the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo on the grounds of the Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, Texas

Carpenter's workspace in a cabin at at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

Carriage house behind the opulent McFaddin-Ward House, now a museum, in Beaumont, Texas

Carol M. Highsmith with camera at Colorado National Monument, which is by no means a monument in the typical sense of the word. It's more like a national park, a preserve of vast plateaus, canyons, and towering monoliths in Mesa County, Colorado, near Grand Junction

Casks on an old truck at Mendelbaum Cellars Winery in Gillespie County in the Texas Hill Country, between Fredericksburg and Johnson City

Cattle get curious in a field near the settlement of Detroit in Red River County, Texas

Cattle alongside the road between tiny Wink and equally tiny Pyote in far-west Texas

Cattle brands seared into the door of a barn at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Cattle browse and rest near a small thicket along a stream in Runnels County, Texas, northeast of San Angelo

Cattle find shade in rural Llano County, Texas

Cattle on a ranch near Mount Pleasant, Texas

Ceiling at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, located in the block bounded by Lafayette, Camp, Magazine and Capdeville Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana

Cattle on a ranch in Red River County near Detroit, Texas

Cattle in a feed lot in Van Zandt County in East Texas

Cattle seek a spot of shade in Donley County in the Texas panhandle

Cattle graze on the grounds of the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch, once his and his wife, Lady Bird's, home and the location of the "Texas White House" now both a national and state park near Stonewall, Texas

Cattle in a feed lot in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas