One of the leads of 1883, James Dutton (Tim McGraw) was the original patriarch of the Dutton family, and the first to claim the family’s home in Montana. Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched Yellowstone, 1883, or 1923. A quick disclaimer, however: Because the Taylor Sheridan universe has yet to reveal the official Dutton family tree, the following is a speculation based on what the shows have revealed so far. Below, take a closer look through the possible knots of the Dutton family tree. So, to understand this “haunted” family best, it’s essential to parse its origins. (A trauma that will, inevitably, impact the land.)

That last line in particular is intriguing, given the ways in which the Yellowstone universe concerns itself with the romanticism of tradition, the nobility of the past-though only certain portions of it-and the passing-down of intergenerational trauma. Ford’s Jacob Dutton, brother to McGraw’s James Dutton, is tasked with caring for his brother’s home and family, a challenge complicated by the expected 20th-century problems: disease, drought, the Great Depression, post-war fallout, and “the violence that has always haunted this family,” as the 1923 trailer teases. The story picks back up in 1923-which dropped its first episode December 18-with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as this chapter’s key Duttons. 1883, which concluded its first season in February 2022, featured Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as the central Duttons, who claim the infamous patch of Montana wild known as the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch after the tragic death of their daughter, Elsa. But if the ever-expanding Yellowstone Cinematic Universe has anything resonant to say about legacy, it’s that the land’s legacy is determined by the people who care for it, and that means the Dutton lineage-the fathers and sons of this century-spanning epic-matters as much as the borders of their property.Īnd so we turn to 18, creator Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel spin-offs, which chronicle the upper tiers of the family tree as they branch down to John Dutton III and his four(ish) children. He often seems more interested in the well-being of this land than that of his own children-or, perhaps, it’s simply that he has an easier time understanding what it needs to thrive. That of the Yellowstone Ranch, upon which the fictional Dutton family has lived since the late 1800s, is foremost in the mind of patriarch John Dutton III, played by Kevin Costner with the gruff bluster of a cowboy past his prime. Yellowstone has always been a series interested in, if not outright obsessed with, legacy.

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