Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Country music legend George Strait, photographed (in 2014) at what was announced as the final tour performance of his long career

Country lane at Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas, north of Dallas, where two runs of the popular TV show "Dallas" were filmed

Cottage in the Hyde Park Historic District of Austin, Texas, just above the sprawling University of Texas campus. Note the Texas Star in the window (Kopperl House, 4212 F Avenue)

Cotton field in Ellis County, Texas, near Waxahatchie

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. The fellow in the fedora, introduced to the audience only as "Johnny," is Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, himself an accompl

County courthouse for Winkler County, near the New Mexico line in far-west Texas

Courtroom door, Bruce M. Van Sickle Federal Building, Minot, North Dakota

Courtroom in 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

Courtroom doors, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Courtroom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Gainesville, Georgia

Courtroom, Bruce M. Van Sickle Federal Building, Minot, North Dakota

Courtroom window. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Courtyard of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Courtroom. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Grand Junction, Colorado

Courtroom. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Alexandria, Louisiana

Courtroom. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Cow-skull detail on the facade of a building in the settlement of Detroit in Red River County, Texas

Cowboy cook symbol on the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater, Texas

Cow skull at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and birding center in McAllen, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer aboard his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis atop his horse, Catote, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand E.B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowboy Lars Hollis, atop his horse Catote, among longhorn steers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, atop his horse, Catote, ropes longhorn calves and heifers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, on the prowl for longhorn heifers and calves on branding day at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand E. B. Feldman, atop his horse, Deets, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowboy figure, in a fedora for some reason, 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

Courtyard wall at Falkenstein Castle, built from scratch as a residence by Kim and Terry Young in the hills below Burnet in the Texas Hill Country

Cowboy advertising figure in downtown El Paso, Texas

Cowgirl Karen Bernard promotes a super-sized truck at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Cow-skull sawhorse at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, atop his horse, Catote, among longhorn steers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, rear, and John Elick, foreground, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, amid the longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowboy Craig Bauer at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands surveying the longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands, including cowgirl Lacey Elick Hollis, left, take a break from branding longhorns at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, right and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas. Hollis's horse is named Catote; Elick's is Rebelito

Cowhand Robert Vaughn, atop his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands drive the 200-head longhorn herd at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands wrestle a longhorn calf to the ground on branding day at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, left and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhands drive longhorn steers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowpokes Mike Maltby, David Mangold, Lane Hopper, left to right on horseback, who help herd Texas Longhorn cattle during a twice-daily stroll (as opposed to any "running of the bulls") in the Stockyards Station neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

Cowhand Robert Vaughn aboard his horse, Dunnie, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cowhand Lars Hollis, left, and John Elick, owner of the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas. Hollis's horse is named Catote; Elick's is Rebelito

Cowhands rope longhorn calves and heifers at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Cows in a field of wildflowers in rural Hunt County near Greenville, Texas

Cowpokes Mike Maltby, David Mangold, Lane Hopper, left to right on horseback, who help herd Texas Longhorn cattle during a twice-daily stroll (as opposed to any "running of the bulls") in the Stockyards Station neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, join Lola Lavender-Hardisty, the Stockyards' official

Cowpokes Mike Maltby, David Mangold, Lane Hopper, left to right on horseback, who help herd Texas Longhorn cattle during a twice-daily stroll (as opposed to any "running of the bulls") in the Stockyards Station neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, join photographer Carol M. Highsmith for a photo Physi

Creatures of all sorts and dimensions appear at Bobz World, a kid-oriented amusement park in Los Fresnos, outside Brownsville, Texas

Creative display of the local high school's football team schedule on a building in little McGregor in McLennon County, Texas

Curious cattle on a ranch in Red River County near Detroit, Texas

Czech dolls, including some donated by the Czech embassy in Washington, D.C., displayed at the Czech Heritage Museum & Genealogy Center in Temple, Texas

Exceedingly flat farmland east of Seminole in Gaines County, Texas

Dakota Prairie Rose Osife 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

Dakota Prairie Rose Osife, left, and her friend, Madison Banda, 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