Trailing Longhorns

Nick Eggenhofer was born in Gauting, Germany, where he was first exposed to the stories of the American Wild West and characters like Buffalo Bill. After emigrating to the United States, Eggenhofer attended Cooper Union in New York while apprenticing at the American Lithography Company. He became known for his illustrations of Native Americans, cowboys and frontier life in popular Western magazines and books throughout the 1920s to 1940s. He was a member of The Cowboy Artists of America and the National Academy of Western Art. In the 1960s, he moved to Cody, Wyoming, where he lived for the remainder of his life.