Born near Noblesville, Indiana, Harvey Caylor was known as a cowboy artist for his authentic paintings of Texas ranch life including longhorn cattle drives and roundups. He was also a painter of landscapes, portraits, genre and animals; was an illustrator and also a writer of articles for ranching and agricultural publications.

Caylor was raised in a log cabin, the ninth of twelve children, supported by a father who was a shoemaker. Caylor received drawing lessons as a child. At 14, he left home to do odd jobs including herding cattle in Kansas. With money he saved from his earnings, he studied painting in Indianapolis with Jacob Cox (1810-1892), a portrait, landscape and still-life painter.

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