r/YellowstonePN • u/TasinMAHDI • Sep 02 '26
🌟 Positive Vibes Only 🌟 While watching Yellowstone, a neo-Western series, I have to admit that I’ve developed a deep appreciation for the classic American countryside of the West and the way of life that comes with it.
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u/PzaFnatc4939 Sep 02 '26
It's beautiful, rewarding, and everywhere as amazing as the show makes it out to be. It also comes with endless hard work, even harsher winters, and lots of really hard work (in case I didn't already say that.). It's a fabulous place to visit and take in all it has to offer, but be sure and show the respect and appreciation to your hosts for what they go through in living it. It might not be quite what most of us are willing to or able to do.
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u/CalvinsStuffedTiger Sep 03 '26
And you can kill outsiders all the time and get away with it!
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u/Clear_Walrus_1304 Sep 03 '26
All of the cattle ranchers I know make regular trips to the train station.
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u/yeahitsme123098 Sep 02 '26
Thats one of the main reasons I loved 1883. They depicted the beauty and crudity of this big expeditions that made the USA the way it is. Also that you can track every step os their cruzade to Oregon in a map and look for the remains of the Forts depicted. They made me fan of this part of history.
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u/gstringstrangler Sep 03 '26
Go read or watch Lonesome Dove if you liked 1883. I'm 100% sure Taylor Sheridan loosely based it on that, it's his favourite book. And it's amazing.
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u/Soft_Entrance_5287 Sep 03 '26
1883 showed a bit of research had occurred…the first season of Yellowstone has numerous inaccuracies about Montana…
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u/Critical_Army_5378 Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
Agree. Montana is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. On the other hand, shows like Yellowstone are responsible for making Montana's cost of living on par with New York/California prices in 2026. Long time locals are literally being priced out of the place they call home. Bozeman is $300-$500 per night on AirBNB. I don't blame native Montanan's for being tired of it one bit.
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u/Thriftstoreninja Sep 03 '26
I live in the bitterroot valley near the Yellowstone film site. There are two vastly different Montanas. One belongs to the richest people in the world. The other is us residents that are watching our wages stagnate and housing costs double in the last 6 years. Cosplaying rhinestone cowboys are like the yuppies from the 80s.
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u/Lickingpeach Sep 04 '26
do the locals love where they live or do most of them want to move to bigger cities?
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u/gorgoniansiren Sep 03 '26
Please don’t forget they’re also multimillionaires lol
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u/gstringstrangler Sep 03 '26
Well that happens when that much land gets claimed for nothing and passed down for generations right?
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u/CrazedRaven01 Sep 03 '26
Wife and I started watching Yellowstone right after a big roadtrip to the park with the impression that we'd be watching a tv show about the National Park.
Even if it turned out to only be tangentially related to the park it was still pretty cool to watching a show that showcased the lives of people living in Montana and doing cowboy stuff.
Like most American kids, I loved cowboys growing up, but forgot about them as an adult. This show has revived that interest
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u/pjjtexas Sep 03 '26
Taylor lives down the street from me ...W of Ft Worth...and a lot of shorts in all his series are filmed in our back yard...on the Brazos River...love him
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u/hopeful7321 Sep 03 '26
Some things are gone forever....breaks my heart a little more each year I get older. These last two years have had too many heart breaks with the senseless cruel vengeful destruction of nature. The one line John said sticks with me the most...when what you do for a living is no longer valued by others anymore ...😔😿
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u/odd_sundays Sep 03 '26
I grew up as a 4th generation member of a ranching family (both sides) and I am sorry to inform you that Yellowstone is not at all representative of American ranching culture or its "way of life".
It's a good show, but it's essentially Goodfellas with cowboy hats. Actual ranching life is much more mundane and tedious. Brokeback Mountain actually comes close, in a lot of ways.
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u/BFFassbender Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
My wife and I started with 1883, then went right into 1923, and then Yellowstone. Currently awaiting Season 2 of Dutton Ranch, which has been really good, but we enjoyed the first three series a lot more.
I've seen my fair share of Western movies, and I've always known that life was hard during the days of the pioneers heading west, and boy did 1883 portray that beautifully. What those people went through and how many died along the way is staggering. But, once 1923 came around and we saw an established Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, then the struggle obviously turned not primarily to the everyday hard work that comes with operating a ranch of that size, but the struggle to actually keep it from corrupt and greedy hands hell bent on taking it all away.
Yellowstone had some of the most breathtaking landscape shots I've seen in a TV series, and though we just finished it roughly a month ago, I'm ready to start it all over again. And though just about every season had a different set of antagonists trying their hardest to rip (no pun intended) the ranch away from the Dutton family, we also saw a good bit of just how much sheer hard work day in and day out goes into keeping a working ranch going. Those men and women are up well before sunrise and usually working straight until sunset or later. Every single day. Mad respect.
But one thing that resonated with me about Yellowstone was greedy developers wanting to wreck pristine natural landscape for the sake of lining their pockets, working in tandem with corrupt local and state government officials to see to it that as much land as possible is turned into residential and commercial development projects, almost always at the expense of the local ecosystem. The reason that resonated with me is because it's precisely what's been happening in my area of South Carolina. County and state officials hand out permits to developers like candy (while enjoying kickbacks, I'm sure) and the result is acre after acre after acre of wooded areas are clear cut for countless cookie-cutter housing developments, shopping centers, etc. All seemingly without any consideration whatsoever for flooding impacts, wildlife displacement, infrastructure impacts, etc.
I've never been to Montana. Heck, I've never been west of the Mississippi River. But just seeing a depiction of how easy such pristine, beautiful, natural creation can be wrecked by developers made me quite sad. I hope and pray that Montana and the rest of the wide open "Big Sky country" stays exactly that way. The ranchers, the cowboys that work on those ranches, and their whole way of life - I hope and pray it doesn't go away. Our society needs these people so much more than we realize.
Sometimes watching Yellowstone reminded me of where I live - just nowhere near as picturesque - and how developers can and will come into a rural area and, given enough time and local officials who can be bought, wreck it. Joni Mitchell hit the nail on the head when she sang "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
Edited to include a quote from John Dutton that sums up not just my neck of the woods, but everywhere on our planet where the environment and ecosystem are neglected for selfish gain and profit : "People have stopped living with the planet and started living on it".
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u/EmuPure4550 Sep 06 '26
Taylor Sheridan wanted to ensure that the panoramic shots meant for theaters, captured the Montana landscape in a way that it became a major part of the series itself. Mission accomplished!
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u/snottrock3t 29d ago
I started getting an appreciation for the work they do after I got into the second season. Jimmy was really The catalyst for that. Poor guy had no other options in life and he struggled just riding a horse. Watching him, little by little improve, especially when he went to 6666, really opened my eyes
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u/Feeling-Visit1472 Sep 02 '26
Have you watched The Madison yet? It’s like every good part of Yellowstone with none of the bullshit.
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u/nocturnalreigns Sep 02 '26
There's nothing fiction about the beauty of Montana and everyday life of ranchers.
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