The Contrabando, a ghost town within Big Bend Ranch State Park, west of Lajitas, Texas, on Texas State Highway 170. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582571/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAt the ”Cadillac Ranch" along Old U.S. Route 66 outside Amarillo, Texas, visitors are encouraged to bring along a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582657/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA horse stands in a wildflower-rich National Park Service meadow in Johnson City, Texas. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582677/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA longhorn steer appears to pose in a thicket in rural Kinney County, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582703/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseOne of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582639/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA lone steer blends nicely into the background north of Big Bend National Park in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582585/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseCountry singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582680/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseScene from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin but located 10 miles south of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582558/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marín, part of his "Wings of the City" exhibit outside the Brownsville, Texas… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582610/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSaint Miguel Archangel Catholic Church in little Los Ebanos, a community on the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582662/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSamantha and Scarlett Santana have some fun in the ride area of a carnival outside the event locations Rodeo Austin, the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582642/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseRefinery storage tanks along the Houston Ship Channel. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582587/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA grain elevator adjoins freight-rail tracks in Wichita Falls, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582655/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseDusk view of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, known locally as simply "The Modern." The originating museum was first… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582707/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA youngster enjoys a display of inflated Easter bunnies for sale on a San Antonio streetcorner. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582618/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSteve Schmidt is the sheriff in town at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582628/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseScene from a Charrería, sometimes called a "Mexican rodeo," at "A Day in Old Mexico," one of several events at the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582579/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseFormations in the "Cave Without a Name," located near Boerne in Kendall County, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582669/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThis approximately four-fifths-scale replica of England's famous Stonehenge prehistoric monument stands in Odessa, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582595/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseExterior detail of a longhorn on the massive 1933 U.S. Post Office in Fort Worth, Texas. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582686/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAn old gas station (converted to a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582614/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Small Parlor in the northeast corner of the first floor in the 1856 section of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582661/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThis mural remembering the famous Chisholm Trail cattle trail in Fort Worth seems to almost literally jump out at you. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582560/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseMount Vernon, a near (but larger) replica in Dallas, Texas, of George Washington's Virginia estate home. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582573/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licensePrized, but unfortunately stuffed, longhorn steer at the Zapata County Fair in Zapata, Texas. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582586/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA cow skull that's part of the garden ornamentation at Quinta Mazatlan, a historical adobe mansion within a nature and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582668/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseScene from the “Bad Company Rodeo,” part of the annual Poteet Strawberry Festival in Poteet, a small city in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582578/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseNeon sign outside a bar -- not Billy Bob's, which is a separate night club and dance hall nearby -- in the Stockyards… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582602/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe sleek Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. This is a “non-collecting” museum that instead concentrates on… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582607/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAn imaginative interpretation of the comics, radio, and TV character "The Lone Ranger," adapted -- hat, mask, and all -- for… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582665/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseSculpture at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas. The Umlauf garden centers on the artistic works of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582564/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseRock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582676/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseGarden path and blooming azeleas at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582694/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseStella Tedesg and James M. McGroarty, the Queen and King of Mardi Gras — a Cowboy Mardi Gras — outside the 11th… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582692/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseScene from Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582649/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseDusk shot of Houston, taken from the Downtown Aquarium. The spinning wheel at the right is the aquarium's Ferris wheel.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582611/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA downtown mural, by western artist Stylle Read, in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas, It celebrates the life… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582619/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe original, greatly refurbished, Phillips 66 gasoline station in little McLean, a town along historic U.S. Route 66 in the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582631/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in Marion County, Texas. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582644/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseView of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, looking toward North Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434582/free-photo-image-georgia-appalachian-mountainsFree Image from public domain license"Texas Ranger," San Antonio artist Don Hunt's sculpture of a 19th-Century ranger on horseback at the entrance to the Texas… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582659/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseArchitect Philip Johnson’s stained-glass "Glory Window" unfolds in the spiraling 1976 Chapel of Thanksgiving, part of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/422050/swirl-stained-glass-interior-designFree Image from public domain licenseSign for Murdoch's Bathhouse, with a peek at the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582563/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseHorse statue advertising sign in the Stockyards, a historic livestock-market district in Fort Worth. Original image from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582593/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseMission Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción de Acuña, better known as simply "Mission… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582592/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA piece of Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas, made famous by the country song about "Waylon… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582600/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseColorful donkeys on a ranch near Mount Pleasant, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582650/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseBrennan Wells, on the black horse, Kayla McShane, on the paint; and Macy Milbert, on the Appaloosa, ride along Padre Island… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582678/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseAlong with a profusion of spring azaleas, a sculpture of Diana, goddess of wild animals and the hunt, is the feature of the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582672/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseMural at 24th and Guadalupe streets in Austin, near the University of Texas campus. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582687/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe flag of Texas, painted on the side of a bank building in Monahans. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434211/free-photo-image-texas-flag-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseTexas flag, painted on boarded-up window in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas. Original image from Carol… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434225/free-photo-image-texas-flag-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseNow-incomplete depiction of a Texas flag on a building in Van Horn, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434218/free-photo-image-texas-america-americas-public-domainFree Image from public domain licenseUSS Texas, the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434263/free-photo-image-navy-ship-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseA neon version of the Texas "Lone Star" state flag at the Institute of Texan Cultures, part of the University of Texas at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434257/free-photo-image-texas-neon-starFree Image from public domain licenseCeiling details of the Perot Theatre, a landmark since 1924, when it opened as the Saenger Amusement Company's "Gateway to… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582664/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseTulips pop in late winter at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582689/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe flag of Texas, depicted on a downtown wall in Pecos, the seat of Reeves County, Texas. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434206/free-photo-image-texas-flag-carol-highsmith-public-domainFree Image from public domain licenseSan Francisco Giants baseball team plays the Chicago Cubs at AT&T Ball Park in San Francisco. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/2110355/carol-highsmiths-californiaFree Image from public domain licenseSan Francisco Giants baseball team plays the Chicago Cubs at AT&T Ball Park in San Francisco. Original image from Carol M.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/2110803/carol-highsmiths-californiaFree Image from public domain licenseA whimsical dinosaur figure in southern Brewster County, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3092522/free-photo-image-dinosaurs-america-big-bend-national-parkFree Image from public domain licenseTexas Independence Day reenactment in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas State. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434220/free-photo-image-carol-highsmith-independence-infraredFree Image from public domain licenseAlligator at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434271/free-photo-image-alligator-crocodile-public-domainFree Image from public domain licenseA perfectly flat wheatfield, worthy of western Kansas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434281/free-photo-image-kansas-rainy-texasFree Image from public domain licenseWindmill in rural Gray County in the Texas Panhandle. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434277/free-photo-image-windmill-sky-americaFree Image from public domain licenseBattleship Texas Houston. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/433975/free-photo-image-war-carol-highsmith-warshipFree Image from public domain licenseBattleship Texas Houston. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/433977/free-photo-image-navy-gunship-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseMetal side of a barn, decorated with a painting of the Flag of Texas, near Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434222/free-photo-image-star-flag-carol-highsmithFree Image from public domain licenseA roundup, for tourists’ benefit, of longhorn cattle on Exchange Street in the Stockyards, the historic livestock… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582603/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseMission San Francisco de la Espada, better known today simply as "Mission Espada," in San Antonio. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582625/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA portion of Fort Davis National Historic Site in the Texas town of Fort Davis. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582615/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain license This "welcome" mural in Las Cruces, the hub city of southern New Mexico, 27 miles from the border… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8068379/photo-image-border-cartoon-birdFree Image from public domain licenseRural Arizona near Florence, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421710/free-photo-image-cactus-desert-grayscaleFree Image from public domain licenseMural across from the San Ysleta Mission in El Paso. The mission was built in 1682 by members of the Tigua Indian tribe who… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582656/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseIn 1991, Victoria, Texas, artist Harold Nichols donated his metal sculpture of a longhorn steer, made of enough steel to… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582706/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseTwo "gunslingers" (historical intrepreters Wes Hughes, left, and Thornton Young) fire away in a showdown on the street at… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582630/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseLandscape near the Colorado border in southern Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582754/carol-highsmiths-wyoming-photographFree Image from public domain licenseOld Dr. Pepper advertising sign in downtown Pittsburg, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582690/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA carefully restored old Sinclair gasoline station in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582616/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseBlackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582699/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseA vintage Dr. Pepper soft-drink outdoor advertisement in Anson, the seat of Jones County, Texas. Original image from Carol… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582643/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseTexas ranger sculpture. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3094620/free-photo-image-horse-america-buildingFree Image from public domain licenseThe "Texas Room" at Bayou Bend mansion, the former home of philanthropist and collector Ima Hogg in Houston, Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582679/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseProfusion of the Texas State Flower -- subtle bluebonnets -- in a field in Boerne, Texas, west of San Antonio. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434253/free-photo-image-meadow-flower-field-san-antonioFree Image from public domain licenseSaguaro Cactus near Tucson, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421729/free-photo-image-cactus-nature-background-desert-mountainFree Image from public domain licenseWind Turbines in mass out in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434065/free-photo-image-windmill-wind-turbines-desertFree Image from public domain licensePart of a large wind farm in rural Carson County in the Texas Panhandle. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434270/free-photo-image-power-windmill-supplyFree Image from public domain licenseRainbow over the West Texas prairie - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/433995/rainbowFree Image from public domain licensePumpjack in rural Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/421900/free-photo-image-crude-oil-pumpjack-usaFree Image from public domain licenseGrain elevators and related agricultural structures along Route 66. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/434278/free-photo-image-agricultural-agriculture-amarilloFree Image from public domain licenseIce at the Galleria in Houston, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/3089198/free-photo-image-ice-rink-america-americanFree Image from public domain licenseOne of three settings in an art installation called "Traveling Man" in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely of arts… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/2367350/photo-image-cloud-sky-technologyView licenseLarry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder tends to his yoked Texan longhorns (Justice, left, and Liberty) at the annual Battle of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582624/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain licenseThe Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, regarded by many as the most beautiful courthouse in Texas. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/582583/carol-highsmiths-texas-photographFree Image from public domain license One of several exuberantly painted adjacent buildings on a narrow, two-lane street that was once the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8068083/photo-image-border-face-personFree Image from public domain license Artist Andrew Nagem's purple "thing," reminiscent of an octopus, which he named "Refuge," serves as… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8068897/photo-image-border-plant-personFree Image from public domain license One of several exuberantly painted adjacent buildings on a narrow, two-lane street that was once the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8040930/photo-image-heart-border-patternFree Image from public domain license Unusual goods for sale line the street outside the Coyote Traders antique-and-collectibles store on… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8068470/photo-image-border-plant-personFree Image from public domain license Vintage sign for the Royal Host Motel and Restaurant in Las Cruces, the hub city of southern New… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8068567/photo-image-border-sky-vintageFree Image from public domain license