![]() ![]() “Founded when Comanches still ruled West Texas, no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Texas’ Four Sixes Ranch, which was featured in Yellowstone season 5, is also real ranch and will be the filming location for Yellowstone‘s upcoming spinoff, 6666. Is the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch real? The answer is also no, though the Dutton’s home is filmed at a real 5,000-square-foot house located at the Chief Joseph Ranch in Darby, Montana, according to Cheat Sheet, which reports that the home is a real family home that doubles as a vacation and cabin rental when Yellowstone isn’t in production. Is the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch a real ranch? Image: Emerson Miller / Paramount Network. In the process, those land values and inheritance taxes are killing a way of life.” They buy their slice of it and use it for a weekend getaway. And people who can afford the fantasy are very, very wealthy people from LA to New York, Dallas and Florida. “It is the most American of us, the West, and land developers sell that fantasy. I placed the white rancher in the position that the Native Americans were in 100-plus years ago because that is accurate to what’s taking place in what you can call the gentrification of the West right now,” he said. “What you have is the three versions of assimilation. ![]() “But when it happens in a small area, in a rural area … and because there’s fewer people, the consequences seem much more acute.” He continued, “When you start seeing Costcos in a landscape of farms and ranches, it’s much more dramatic than if they jam one in the San Fernando Valley.” He also told Deadline in 2018 about how Yellowstone was based on the “gentrification” he’s seen in the west. “These issues of land development, resource mismanagement, oppression and extreme poverty and inequity in government - they exist here,” he said. Is Yellowstone based on a true story? The answer is no, however creator Taylor Sheridan explained to The Los Angeles Times in 2018 that Yellowstone is inspired by the changes he’s seen in western mountain states like Montana and Wyoming, where he lives. It is powerhouse actors getting to say some real chewy stuff.” I am chewing the scenery and having a blast doing it, and the actors are having a blast as well. He continued, “Here’s why: It’s wickedly acted and the location is fantastic, and we’re peeking into a world that no one really knows. They don’t understand why this thing’s such a hit.” And yes, I think it infuriates and confounds some people who study storytelling. It’s every old western and new western and soap opera thrown together in a blender. But that’s what I love about Yellowstone, the way that it flows from being campy to melodramatic to intensely dramatic to violent. The people who get it eat it up, and the people that try to look at it with a critical eye see a mess. I’ll jump the plot ahead for no reason whatsoever except that I wanted to and it’s entertaining. “I think one of the reasons the critics haven’t responded to Yellowstone is that I’m breaking a lot of story rules. ![]() The audience has expanded beyond that because, you know, a lot of people love westerns,” he said. I’m not making it for them I’m making it for people who live that life. “I don’t care if critics hate it and I don’t care if they like it. In an interview with The New York Times in 2021, Yellowstone executive producer, Taylor Sheridan, explained why he thinks Yellowstone has been such a success with audiences, even if it hasn’t been popular with critics or awards. ![]()
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