He later created a TV show about a man who owns a dynastic mega-ranch who struggles to protect it and make it successful … and its success has allowed Sheridan to himself become a man who owns a dynastic mega-ranch who struggles to protect it and make it successful - and not just any ranch, but the same one that served as the basis for his show. Twelve years ago, the struggling actor was down to his last $800 when he sold his first screenplay. Yet the amount of work that piled onto Sheridan’s plate as a result, coupled with his own obsessive drive to make every episode bearing his name just right, appeared to have some unforeseen consequences.īut first, let’s appreciate what Sheridan has accomplished, because it’s remarkable and rather strange. It was an extraordinary burst of get-the-ranch productivity that’s resulted in green lights for six series. Sheridan says he renewed his overall deal at Paramount in 2021 and started pumping out prequels and pilots to help pay for all this. They’d already lost it.”Īcquiring the property, however, wasn’t easy. Most ranches there had already been carved up.
This was the ranch I based scope and operation on, because it didn’t exist in Montana. “To just get one of their horses was a status symbol, because they’re so well trained. “I grew up in the shadow of the Four Sixes,” Sheridan says. The ranch and its horse-and-cattle operation were long controlled by a single dynastic family that battled for 150 years to protect their land and keep it largely intact. Sheridan grew up in North Texas, where the Four Sixes is legendary. The importance of this place to Sheridan - and its connection to Yellowstone and to the rest of his TV universe - cannot be overstated. There’s a warm breeze and, every so often, a Texas Longhorn steer trots by. Stretching from his porch is a dreamy field of virgin countryside extending to the horizon under cotton-ball clouds.
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(The Montana ranch in Yellowstone is fictional, but the Four Sixes, or 6666 - which is also featured in the series - is real.) Sheridan finalized his purchase last year, and it covers a staggering 270,000 acres - nearly the size of Los Angeles. The property is wedged up in the remote Texas panhandle, several hours’ drive from the nearest major city. We’re sitting behind one of his houses on his massive Four Sixes ranch. Elizabeth Olsen, whom he directed in Wind River, once affectionately described Sheridan as “a cowboy who’s like a combination of your dad and the Marlboro Man.” The 53-year-old is a formidable wall of blue denim, and his eyes are blue, too. Sheridan takes a seat wearing a button-down shirt, rugged jacket, jeans and boots, complete with spurs (he was riding earlier). Taylor Sheridan Photographed by Emerson Miller
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