Taylor Made
“There’s no shortage of rattlesnakes in Bosque County,” says Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, the highest-rated cable TV show of 2020. “I don’t know how I never got bit. Now I’ve gotta find wood to knock on because we’ve got a scene with some rattlesnakes tomorrow.”
Yellowstone is set on a Montana ranch that’s “the size of Rhode Island,” according to the show’s ruthless patriarch, John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner. But the roots of the gripping contemporary Western can be traced to a 214-acre ranch near the town of Cranfills Gap, 54 miles west of Waco. That’s where Sheridan, who writes and directs the series, learned to ride horses, shoot guns, and make movies in his head. He named his production company Bosque Ranch to honor where he comes from.
“I’m deeply influenced by where I grew up and how I grew up,” says Sheridan, speaking, Sheridan is also responsible for the creation of the “neo-Western” film trilogy of (2015), (2016), and (2017), a run that led to declare him “our generation’s greatest Western storyteller” in 2018.
