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An American burro at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the small northern Arizona city of Williams. The name is a combination of the names of the surrounding state and the park's best-known species

An American burro at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featurin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Tourist cabin at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Tourist cabin at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) peg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Vintage Frontier Gasoline pumps in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Vintage Frontier Gasoline pumps in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city no...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Pllayful entrance sign at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the small northern Arizona city of Williams. The name is a combination of the names of the surrounding state and the park's best-known species

Pllayful entrance sign at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park fea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Life-sized, but not actual, gila monster in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way" As part of the city's rough-and-ready mystique, it places life-sized (and quite realistic) renditions of desert varmints " tarantula spiders, rattlesnakes, this lizard and the like " all over town

Life-sized, but not actual, gila monster in Wickenburg, a small Arizon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Street art in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Street art in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surround the Arizona city of Sedona, and many of those formations take on spectacular hues when the sun fully strikes them. This, and the city's many art galleries, are two of the reasons that Sedona is a popular tourist attraction as well as a genteel place to live

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Cafe entrance in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Cafe entrance in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A vintage Chevrolet Bel-Air automobile, parked in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

A vintage Chevrolet Bel-Air automobile, parked in Wickenburg, a small ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

The Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolitio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Joe Beeler's 1988 "Thanks for the Rain" sculpture outside the Desert Caballeros western museum in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Joe Beeler's 1988 "Thanks for the Rain" sculpture outside the Desert C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city no...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Grounds of the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Grounds of the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-fo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Black bear on the move at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the small northern Arizona city of Williams. The name is a combination of the names of the surrounding state and the park's best-known species

Black bear on the move at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park fea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western communities founded by Mormon settlers

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western com... More

A "drover caboose" in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way" Drovers were cowboys who herded cattle, sometimes far from civilization. They didn't always sleep under the stars as cowboy songs would have you believe, however. Sometimes they bunked in cabooses of trains that ran along lines across the plains

A "drover caboose" in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Ph...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Creative "diver" neon sign at the old Starlight Motel in Mesa, a small...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western com... More

Poolroom at La Cabana Saloon in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Poolroom at La Cabana Saloon in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city north...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Welcome sign along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward t Grand Canyon National Park

Welcome sign along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother R...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Snoozing, or at least relaxing, black bears at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the small northern Arizona city of Williams. The name is a combination of the names of the surrounding state and the park's best-known species

Snoozing, or at least relaxing, black bears at Bearizona, a drive-thro...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

The defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city no...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The Deserama Mobile Ranch, one of several large mobile-home communities in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

The Deserama Mobile Ranch, one of several large mobile-home communitie...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western com... More

An American burro at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the small northern Arizona city of Williams. The name is a combination of the names of the surrounding state and the park's best-known species

An American burro at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featurin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A portion of the Yuma River outside the Arizona city of the same name

A portion of the Yuma River outside the Arizona city of the same name

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward to Grand Canyon National Park

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Mule deer at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a variety of North American animals outside the small northern Arizona city of Williams. The name is a combination of the names of the surrounding state and the park's best-known species

Mule deer at Bearizona, a drive-through wildlife park featuring a vari...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

When a development was built five miles north of Wickenburg " a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way" a traffic "roundabout" was added in 2015 in the highway that runs past it. Residents felt it needed some public art, so this set of cowboy spurs "eight feet tall at one point " were added. Kelly Hill and his wife, Jennifer, designed the sculpture, each spur of which weighs 4,300 pounds

When a development was built five miles north of Wickenburg " a small ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Spurs Cafe sign and the marquee of the Saguaro Theater in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Spurs Cafe sign and the marquee of the Saguaro Theater in Wickenburg, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A Mexican balladeer " one of six painted, bronze, public-art sculptures, designed by renowned artist J. Seward Johnson, placed throughout Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

A Mexican balladeer " one of six painted, bronze, public-art sculpture...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surround the Arizona city of Sedona, and many of those formations take on spectacular hues when the sun fully strikes them. This, and the city's many art galleries, are two of the reasons that Sedona is a popular tourist attraction as well as a genteel place to live

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Office at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Office at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward to Grand Canyon National Park

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sign for the defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Sign for the defunct L Bar L Motel, outside Wickenburg, a small Arizon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A portion of the Yuma River outside the Arizona city of the same name

A portion of the Yuma River outside the Arizona city of the same name

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Bull sculpture atop the Double-HH hat company in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Bull sculpture atop the Double-HH hat company in Wickenburg, a small A...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Street art in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Street art in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Preserved vintage gas station along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward to Grand Canyon National Park

Preserved vintage gas station along historic U.S. Route 66, once the t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Tourist cabins at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Tourist cabins at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Cookout area at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegged-for-demolition historic motor lodge in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Cookout area at the Buckhorn Baths, an abandoned and (as of 2018) pegg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Buckhorn was a combination motel, spa, gift shop, and museum in the heyday of American two-lane automobile traffic; it was the leg... More

Poolroom at La Cabana Saloon in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Poolroom at La Cabana Saloon in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city north...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Street scene, including part of a western-themed mural, in Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Street scene, including part of a western-themed mural, in Wickenburg,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surround the Arizona city of Sedona, and many of those formations take on spectacular hues when the sun fully strikes them. This, and the city's many art galleries, are two of the reasons that Sedona is a popular tourist attraction as well as a genteel place to live

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Schoolteacher character, one of six painted, bronze, public-art sculptures, designed by renowned artist J. Seward Johnson, placed throughout Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Schoolteacher character, one of six painted, bronze, public-art sculpt...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Irrigation canal in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs. The city far predates Phoenix (which gets its water from canals such as this). Mesa was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western communities founded by Mormon settlers

Irrigation canal in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of spra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Swimming pool at the Deserama Mobile Ranch, one of several large mobile-home communities in Mesa, a small Arizona city that became one of sprawling Phoenix's many suburbs

Swimming pool at the Deserama Mobile Ranch, one of several large mobil...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The city far predates Phoenix; it was the site of 15th-Century Indian canals and, four centuries later, was one of several western com... More

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "Mother Road" between Chicago and Los Angeles. This is in Williams, a small Arizona city from which a popular scenic railroad takes many visitors northward to Grand Canyon National Park

Scene in a gift shop along historic U.S. Route 66, once the two-lane "...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surround the Arizona city of Sedona, and many of those formations take on spectacular hues when the sun fully strikes them. This, and the city's many art galleries, are two of the reasons that Sedona is a popular tourist attraction as well as a genteel place to live

At least thirteen named canyons and numerous buttes and mountains surr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Railroad bridge in a canyon outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city northwest of Phoenix that was once a "rough and ready" western frontier town that still spotlights Old West scenes and dress and art and refers to its location as "out Wickenburg Way"

Railroad bridge in a canyon outside Wickenburg, a small Arizona city n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More