Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Scene along a winding, narrow lake in Brownsville, Texas

Scale 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

Scene at Inks Lake in the Texas Hill Country, near Burnet

Scene at a quiet reflecting pool at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas

Scene at Smiley's Body Shop, an auto-repair shop in a modest neighborhood of Dallas, Texas

Scarecrow 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

Scene along Lake Lyndon B. Johnson on Honeymoon Ranch, near Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country

Scene from a Mexican-style rodeo, or Charreria, at "A Day in Old Mexico," part of the annual, monthlong Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Scene from a Charreria, sometimes called a "Mexican rodeo," at "A Day in Old Mexico," one of several events at the monthlong Fiesta celebration in San Antonio, Texas

Scene from Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas

Scene from Morton Cemetery in Richmond, Texas, southwest of Houston

Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, Texas, near San Antonio

Scene from the "Bad Company Rodeo," part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in Atascosa County, near San Antonio, Texas

Scene from 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

Scene from the 252-acre Shangri La Botanical Center and Nature Gardens in Orange, Texas

Scene from the 66-acre Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Dallas, Texas

Scene from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin but located 10 miles south of the Texas capital

Scene from 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

Scene from 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

Scene from the livestock pavilion at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas

Scene from the Cannon Quarter Horse ranch near the town of Venus in north-central Texas

Scene from the opening grand parade at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas

Scene from the Texas Cavaliers River Parade on the San Antonio River, which winds through the River Walk beneath the streets of San Antonio, Texas

Scene from the Texan 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, La Porte, Texas

Scene from 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, La Porte, Texas

Scene inside Big Bend Ranch State Park, a Texas state park adjacent to the more-famous Big Bend National Park in southern Brewster County

Scene on East Sixth Street, locally known as "Dirty Sixth," in Austin, Texas

Scene on Honeymoon Ranch, near Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country

Scene inside the cluttered bar in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Scene in arid Big Bend Ranch State Park in Brewster County, Texas. The park, also situated along the Rio Grande River, is adjacent to the better-known Big Bend National Park

Scene in arid Big Bend National Park, which hugs the Rio Grande River in Brewster County, Texas

Scene outside the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum on the campus of the American Airlines Flight Academy, at the southern end of DFW International Airport near the world headquarters of American Airlines

Scene 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, La Porte, Texas

Scenery in Big Bend National Park in the "Trans-Pecos" region of Texas

Scenery in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Scenes from the stock show portion of Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

Scenery 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

Sculptor Carol Loafman Thornton created this statue of Addison and Randolph Clark, founders of Texas Christian University, on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas

Sculptor Glenn Thomas's stone carving of an American bison, or buffalo, in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Sculptor James Rice's statue of the outlaw Billy the Kid, firing his gun, in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Sculpture "War Mother" at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Sculpture at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle, a Catholic shrine that draws thousands of pilgrims each week to San Juan, Texas, near McAllen

Sculpture of Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, wearing pilgrim dress and reading a bible, Pittsburg, Texas

Sculpture of a large longhorn steer skull, erected by local resident and area rancher Cliff Teinert in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

Sculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas

Sculpture on the grounds of a house designed by acclaimed international architect I.M. Pei in the Westover section of Fort Worth, Texas

Sculpture in Annette Strauss Square outside the Shannon and Ted Skokos Pavilion at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas

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

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

Ships in an inlet of Galveston Bay, above Galveston Island in Texas

Shrimping trawlers moored in an Atlantic Ocean inlet in Brownsville, Texas

Show-stopping penguins at the Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens, an educational tourist attraction in Galveston, Texas

Short pier on White Rock Lake, a reservoir located in east Dallas, Texas

Shriner and sphynx statues outside the Sharon Shrine Center, a Shrine-organization-related restaurant and event center in Tyler, Texas

Shrunken head in the "odditorium" at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not attraction in Grand Prairie, Texas

Side-by-side vintage Mobil pegasus (flying horse) gas station insigias along a road in East Texas

Sign for an abandoned motel in Monahans, southwest of Odessa in Ward County, Texas

Sign for Leddy handmade boots in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas