Remnants of the abandoned Twin Arrows trading post in a dot of a place of the same name along old U.S. Highway 66 in eastern Arizona, which served as a major path for those who migrated west during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Traffic began to flow through the Twin Arrows area because Route 66 was aligned along the National Old Trails Road. Two 25-foot giant arrows which were placed on the property were easily recognized by traveling motorists and the business began to fourish, but the Twin Arrows Trading Post began to fail with the construction of the Interstate 40 , which pulled traffic off old Route 66. The decline continued until 1995, when the site was finally closed and abandoned

In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)