I've heard Ram may be coming out with a 6666 edition.

Stub, ours was The Great American Cattle Drive and it we left the stockyards in March of 1995. We got to Miles City early September. There have been others since, but they usually stay in the same state and are more wagon type drives without all the cattle.

It’s a dodge so you have one two many 6’s…

Agree, she was the star of the show for me. I hated the ending though.

Greg,

I’m a hard person to impress, but that is pretty dadgum cool!

So was it a one way cattle drive up to Montana and then trailered the horses back to FT Worth or?

Yes Sir… one way. All the cattle were auctioned off in Miles City after the drive. At the beginning there were 4 real/true cowboys picked from each of the 6 states we went through. Some had more than one horse with them and would alternate them out. When we finally got there, the streets were blocked off and it was a big celebration with live music and the whole deal. We were all made honorary citizens of Miles City, given plaques and buckles and that was pretty much it. I had a woman waiting on me back home, so my buddy and I grabbed one of the ford trucks that was donated to the drive, said our goodbyes, and we drove 26 hours straight through back to Dallas.

That’s a hell of a memory Greg.

Very cool story and quite the experience. Thanks for sharing.

And I’m sorry. I know I’m sounding like Ox telling the same story over and over again, so I’ll try and let this one drop now. I feel sorry for my Grandkids some day… they are gonna be like “we know we know”

Thanks for sharing.

The wolves scene was a bit over the top.

Somehow I just don't see an entire pack of wolves standing around a carcass long enough to whack all of em....silencers or not. lmao

Great experience, and great story!

The book I've been reading lately us about Charles Goodnight. They would drive 2000-3000 head from what is now Cisco area, follow the Pecos around to Las Vegas NM, and then turn pretty much due north. The optimal herd size was half a mile long and 50 yards wide.

When you've been watching Lonesome Dove for the last 35 years, then you read the book, you see how Larry McMurtry blended in true stories into the book and series. Fighting the Indians in the creek and one having to float out really happened. Buring Deets a black man, and carving a marker "splendid behavior" really did happen. And many others.

I recommend the book to all Texas history students. Goodnight is another father of Texas.

Heard a news report yesterday that said they're currently filming in Venus, TX.

Taylor's love for Texas is definitely apparent in at least a few of the episodes, including the premier of Season 5 that he held in Ft. Worth. When asked if the premier were held in New York or LA, his responses was, "I wouldn't be there."

They were filming on the square. Supposedly for Season 5.

I agree with the others, episode 1 and 2 of the new season were really slow and the whole Beth/Jamie thing is getting stupid. Add in the Beth/Rip, character building flashback and I was like WTF. Looks like this year we will get more Kasey and his family melodrama. Throw in a big controversy for killing federal wolves, law suits from the big bad investment company, more Beth/Jamie melodrama, and this season is heading to be really dull. Hopefully they will have some decent action, but my guess is that it will be mostly melodrama, soap opera junk.

Yeah I grew up out there and my FB feed was flooded with folks watching filming.

Taylor Sheridan is from Cranfills Gap, Texas and currently lives in Weatherford.

The Yellowstone stuff has made him a ton of money.

my wife loves it....to me it's "Dallas" regurgitated in Montana.....so predictable and soap opera like....

Her narration was really good as well.

Heck of a lot better than Monarch

The drama would have started when Rip killed the grizzly. There would have been a full blown federal investigation. Rip supposedly has no real identity and like knight rider, does not exist, but he's out driving around, doing murders, participating in shoot outs, etc.

I still watch it but having more inside knowledge of things than the average viewer does, its a little hard to swallow sometimes.




The whole "we are gonna take your land to build an airport" thing was all preposterous.

Did anyone else notice a tractor finally showed up in one of the first two episodes? I was one of many who pointed out on social media how you never noticed a tractor anywhere on the Yellowstone cattle ranch.

Dam...I was just letting y'all know it was about to start when I posted