Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Retired major-league baseball star Lance Berkman, in the pink shirt, and his family, confer with guides from the Far Flung river-tour company prior to heading off on a canoe trip through Santa Elena Canyon, deep in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. The sheer walls of Mexico are to th

Retired major-league baseball star Lance Berkman and his daughter, set off to navigate the Rio Grande River, past 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

Restored prairie grasses and native-grass hay bales at the 1,600-acre Crawford Ranch, owned by former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush near Crawford in McLennon County, Texas

Richard Drake Construction Co. asphalt plant near Paris in Lamar County, Texas

Rice-processing plant and storage facility in El Campo, a town in Wharton County in the Mid-Gulf region of Texas

Road through the Texas Hill Country near Burnet

Roadside scene near Inks Lake in the Texas Hill Country, near Burnet

Roadsign for the colorfully named hamlet of Uncertain, in a swampy piece of Harrison County in East Texas

Rock formations along Texas Rt. 170, which runs along the Rio Grande River through Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

Rock formation in remote Brewster County, Texas, north of Big Bend National Park

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock formation just north of the entrance to Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas

Rocky scene near the town of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

Rocky scene in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas

Rock formations north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

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

Rolling irrigation sprinkler at work along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Rolling irrigation sprinkler in Gaines County, Texas, in the peanut-and-cotton-growing country between Hobbs, New Mexico, and Seminole, Texas

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

Rodeo queen and mascot get a ride before the crowd at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Roof sign, visible for miles, of the Hotel Grim, which was the "Crown Jewel" of Texarkana, Texas, in its heyday

Roping at Rodeo Austin, the fourth-largest indoor pro rodeo in the world, held in Austin, Texas

Rose Hill Manor, also called the Woodworth House, in Port Arthur, Texas

Rose Mary De Luna, a participant 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

Rows of crops in Hidalgo, County, along the Rio Grande River in far-south (or what area residents call "southmost") Texas

Rugged landscape north of Big Bend National Park in Texas's "Trans-Pecos" region

Rugged terrain north of Big Bend National Park in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

Ruins in a ghost town named Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Rural scene near the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site in Washington County, Texas

Rural scene in Coleman County, not far from Brownwood in Central Texas

Rural scene in Fort Bend County, Texas, southwest of Houston

Rural scene combining cacti, trees, and bushes in Karnes County, Texas

Rural scene in Palo Pinto County, Texas, near Mineral Wells

Rural scene in Bosque County, Texas

Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas

Rural scene in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas

Rural scene near Caldwell in Burleson County, Texas

Rural scene along U.S. 290 in Lee County, Texas, east of Giddings

Rural scene along U.S. Highway 290 in Washington County, Texas, near the town of Chappell Hill

Rural scene in Bandera County, Texas

Rural scene, Texas panhandle

Rural scene north of Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County, Texas

Rural scene northeast of Commerce in Hunt County, Texas

Sabal palm trees on the grounds of the Rabb Plantation Home, southeast of Brownsville, Texas, along the twisting Rio Grande River

Saint Miguel Archangel Catholic Church in little Los Ebanos, a community on the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas

Samantha and Scarlett Santana have some fun in the ride area of a carnival outside the event locations Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Salt flats in what is now a town named Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Saint Joseph Catholic Church in downtown San Antonio, Texas

Sam Rayburn statue in front of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas

San Agustin Plaza in Laredo, Texas

San Antonio, Texas, actor and photographer John Watts Nieto, a collector of medals from the city's annual Fiesta celebration, models one of his two creations exhibited in the "Hats Off to Fiesta!" event, sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antoino's Institute of Texan Cultures, as part of th

Sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, Texas

Sand Beach Park, along the Colorado River in Austin, Texas

Sanctuary entrance at Mission San Francisco de la Espada, better known today simply as "Mission Espada," in San Antonio, Texas

Sanctuary of Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

Sanctuary of Mission San Francisco de la Espada, better known today simply as "Mission Espada," in San Antonio, Texas

Sanctuary of the Mission San Francisco de la Espada, known today as Mission Espada, San Antonio, Texas

Sanctuary of Mission San Juan Capistrano, now known as simply "Mission San Juan," was established in 1716 as Mission San Jose de los Nazonis in East Texas

Sanctuary at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, better known as simply "Mission Concepcion" today, is one of four surviving Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas