Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Historic interpreters Marilee Stripling and Roland Salazar in the Mexican encampment 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

Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer at a 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

Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer tends to a couple of hogs outside a 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

Historical interpreter "Uncle Bob" Beringer tends to a crude outdoor stove at a 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

Historical interpreter (and actual blacksmith) Robert Swin, at work at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Historical interpreter J.R. Thomas 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

Historical interpreter Tina Griffith 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 stock farm is the working ranch of a cattle breeder and rancher Ph

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Carrizo Springs, Texas

Historical interpreter Tina Griffith sows seeds by hand at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Horse prances through the Spring flowers by Carol M. Highsmith

Horse and barn on a ranch near Mount Pleasant, Texas

Hondo's Bar, Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Horse figure, a longtime signature of Fincher's White Front Western Store on Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Horse within a lovely meadow in the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Johnson City, Texas

Horse being put through its paces in a corral at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

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

Horses run free as part of a brief program about Texas's wild horses at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Horseshoes at the blacksmith shop of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Horseback riding lessons at Camp Waldemar, one of several summer camps in the Texas Hill Country near the town of Hunt, near Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas

Horses gallop toward the camera in a wildflower-rich National Park Service meadow in Johnson City, Texas

Horses within a lovely meadow in the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Johnson City, Texas

House building on Rio Grande Street, Austin, Texas

Hotel marquee for Hotel Texas in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Houston,Texas by Carol M. Highsmith

Humorous mural inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Imaginative rest area along Texas Rt. 170, which runs along the Rio Grande River through Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

Image of a local boy made good: rock-'n'-roll superstar singer and songwriter Roy Orbison, on the side of a tiny museum honoring him in tiny Wink, Texas

Iconic, low-hanging Texas tree near the town of Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas

Illuminated sign above Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Immortal 32 Centennial Monument

Immaculate Conception Cathedral, a historic church in Brownsville, Texas

In the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Industrial scene along the road from Port Arthur to Sabine Pass, Texas

Industrial scene near the San Jacinto Monument, which marks the site of the decisive battle of the war for Texas independence, in Harris County, Texas

Inner) Tubing is almost a Texas passion come summertime. These participants enjoy the water in Prince Solms Park on the Comal River in New Braunfels, near San Antonio, Texas

Industrial scene on Nueces Bay in Corpus Christi, Texas

Indian statue at the Tigua Indian Cultural Center at the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, which celebrates more than 300 years of tribal history in El Paso, Texas

Industrial plant the town of Moody in McLennon County, Texas

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

Interestingly decorated building in Cuero, Texas

Interesting clouds over Inks Lake, an inlet of the Colorado River in Burnet County, Texas

Interior details at the re-created Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo De Zuniga Mission, near the famous, oft-captured Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, Texas

Interior details at the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Interior detail of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, now commonly called Mission Concepcion. San Antonio, Texas

Interior hall 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

Interior light fixture. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Interior metal grate. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Interior mailbox. U.S. Courthouse, El Paso, Texas

Interior view of the San Ysleta Mission, built in 1682 by members of the Tigua Indian tribe who had been forced to flee their ancestral home near what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is the oldest mission in Texas, now run by Catholic Diocese of El Paso

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

Interior view of the San Ysleta Mission, built in 1682 by members of the Tigua Indian tribe who had been forced to flee their ancestral home near what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico. Located in El Paso, Texas

Iron gate leading to the Hartman Prehistoric Garden within Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin, Texas

Isolated windmill in rugged country just north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

It may not be a surprise to learn that the owner of Marathon, Texas's, "Big Hair" beauty shop is the sister of the owner of an art gallery in town

Is it graffiti or art? Whatever it is, this wall drawing in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas, shows a patriotic flair, with a nod to the old Cactus Hotel in town

It's cowboy hats and beads for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, for Cheryl Pittman, David Cross, and Marcia Cross outside the 11th Street Bar in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, including Sandy Matte in a chicken costume and Michael Fontenot in combo Mardi Gras and camouflage gear in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, with a Texas touch in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's not exactly the French Quarter, but people still line the streets, awaiting the big Mardi Gras parade, Texas style, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

Items used by Czech immigrants to Texas, displayed at the Czech Heritage Museum & Genealogy Center in Temple, Texas