A gigantic cowpoke character beckons passersby to Front Street, a manufactured Old West-style street of shops in Ogallala, a small city in southwest Nebraska that was once on the Oregon Trail and, later, the line of the Transcontinental Railroad. The name, which is pronounced oh-guh-LOLL-uh, roughly translates as "scatter" or "to scatter," comes from the Sioux Tribe. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.