Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Street sign for a barbecue restaurant in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas. Texas vies with North Carolina and the city of Kansas City as avowed "barbecue capitals" of the country

Stroller on the shoreline of the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park, Texas

Sugar bags at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Structure on the grounds of the Radha Madhav Dham, the main U.S. center of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, a nonprofit spiritual organization located on more than 200 acres of land in Hays County, south of Austin, Texas

Striking horse-ranch entrance in Hopkins County, Texas, near Sulphur Springs

Sunset on U.S. 62/U.S. 180 east of El Paso, Texas

Sunset scene in rural Tom Green County, Texas, northeast of San Angelo

Sunset over the mountains in Brewster County, Texas, south of Alpine

Sunset in rural Tom Green County, Texas, near San Angelo

Sunset over the low mountains in the rugged terrain north of Big Bend National Park in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

Surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for nearly a century, beginning in 1849, in Laredo, Texas

Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas

Swampy scene in rural Hardin County in southeast Texas

Swampy section in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the marshy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Swimming pool at the Thunderbird Motel in Marfa, a community known for its art galleries and other art installations, in Presidio County, Texas

Symbol of the Gonzales Fire Department outside its station in Gonzales, Texas

Symbol of El Paso County, Texas, on the county building in El Paso, Texas

Tall grasses, a pond, and a fence decorated with the Texas Lone Star in rural Blanco County, Texas

Taunia and John Elick, owners 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

Team roping at Rodeo Austin, that city's annual rodeo, stock show, performance event, and carnival. Austin, Texas

Terrain outside the town of Marathon in Brewster County, Texas

Texas flag, painted on boarded-up window in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas

Texas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas State Historic Site in Washington County that is considered the "Birthplace of Texas." The event marks the March 2, 1836 adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Texas Historical Commission plaques at Fort Griffin, Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

Texas longhorn steer 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

Texas Governor's Mansion, Austin, Texas

Texas flag on the side of a building in tiny Bronte in Coke County, Texas

Texan reenactors (left to right) John Baker, James Lynch, Bud Norkington, and Ricardo Villarreal 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

Texas Governors Mansion Highsmith

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library, in Austin, Texas

The "Haunted Hotel" in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Below its name, the sign reads, "Once You Check In, You May Never Check Out"

Texas trees at sunset in the marshlands of southern Jefferson County, Texas

The "Jacob's Dream" sculpture at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas

Texas longhorns on the move 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

Texas longhorn steers 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

The "House of the Seasons," built by Benjamin Epperson, a lawyer and confidant of Sam Houston, in the picturesque town of Jefferson in East Texas

The "Come and Take It" Cannon, housed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum in Gonzales, Texas

The "Lighthouse," the signature formation in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Armstrong County in the Texas panhandle

The "Clio Garden" and the figure of the muse, Clio, at Bayou Bend, the longtime estate of Houston philanthropist and collector Ima Hogg in Houston, Texas

Texas Star, the 212-foot Ferris wheel that supplies a bird's-eye view of the State Fair of Texas each fall at Dallas's Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition

Texas state flags line a path through the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

The "Come and Take It" cannon at the Gonzales Memorial Museum in Gonzales, Texas

The "Glory Window" inside the public, spiral-shaped chapel in Thanks-Giving Square (technically triangular), designed by architect Philip Johnson in downtown Dallas, Texas

The "Missing Man" Monument of four aircraft in V formation (missing one airplane) at Randolph Field, now Randolph Air Force Base, part of the U.S. Military's Joint Base San Antonio, Texas

The "Leaning Tower of Groom," a tilted water tower that used to suppy a now-extinct truck stop off old U.S. Route 66 in tiny Groom, Texas

Texas outline in stone, propped against a wall at the old "Hye" store and post office in Blanco County, west of Johnson City, Texas

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

The "Ring of Thanks" at Thanks-Giving Square, a small (actually triangular) park in downtown Dallas, Texas, that is operated by the non-profit Thanks-Giving Foundation

The "Sweet Inspiration" statue outside the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

The (quite small) Italian Wall of Honor in Port Arthur, Texas

The "Moderne" style Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas

The "Wall of Praise" at Thanks-Giving Square, a small (actually triangular) park in downtown Dallas, Texas, that is operated by the non-profit Thanks-Giving Foundation

The 1890s Davis 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

The Administration Building, known locally and fondly as the "Taj Mahal," at Randolph Field, now Randolph Air Force Base, part of the U.S. Military's Joint Base San Antonio, Texas

The 307-foot University of Texas Tower, which rises above the university's Main Building, is one of the most- recognized structures on the sprawling campus and in Austin, Texas

The airplane that is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Air Force One-Half," although any plane that carries the president of the United States is Air Force One when it's in the air. This Lockheed JetStar, now permanently displayed at the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas, flew Lyndon Johnson in and o

The aereated pool of the Fort Worth Water Gardens, designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, Fort Worth, Texas

The Art Deco Palace Theater, a onetime movie theater in downtown Marfa, Texas

The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House, one of several cattle barons' mansions in Fort Worth, Texas

The Ammie Wilson House 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