Inside ‘Yellowstone’ mastermind Taylor Sheridan’s rise — and Kevin Costner feud

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told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023, referring to an iconic ranch that’s famous in cowboy circles. It was controlled by a family dynasty for over a century. “To just get one of their horses was a status symbol, because they’re so well trained,” he explained. “This was the ranch I based [‘Yellowstone’s’] scope and operation on, because it didn’t exist in Montana.

Most ranches there had already been carved up. They’d already lost it.”Since 2022, Sheridan himself has owned that iconic ranch.

Per the Austin American Statesman, Sheridan buying the 266,000-acre property marked its first-ever purchase since its founding in 1870.Sheridan moved to the west after marrying his wife, actress Nicole Muirbrook, 41, in 2013. “I left LA the second I could get out,” he told Cowboys & Indians Magazine in 2020.“My wife’s from up in Wyoming, and my mother lives up there, so we moved there for a number of years, until I finally convinced her to come try my home state,” he added.

Sheridan started in Hollywood as an actor, appearing in shows like “Veronica Mars” and “Sons of Anarchy.”“I was a fair actor, but that’s all I was ever going to be,” Sheridan told THR. “But the first thing I ever wrote [the pilot for ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ in 2011] got me meetings at every major network, at every agency.