

While arriving separately, Dutton, Brennan and Thomas all head to Fort Worth, Texas. Sam Elliott as Shea Brennan and LaMonica Garrett as Thomas in '1883' (Image credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+) Elsa isn’t dead, though, as she continues shooting other Natives that were part of the attack and cuts away before resolving the scene. Elsa decides to pull the gun anyway and shoots the Native, though he manages to shoot her with an arrow in the stomach before dying. She asks him if he can speak English, how could he be doing something so heinous? To which he responds that Elsa’s people also speak English and do the same thing to his people. Elsa tries to protect herself by grabbing a gun off a dead man, but one of the Natives tells her, in English, not to do it. To back it up, we see Elsa awake underneath a wagon that is set on fire and a group of Native Americans killing her fellow travelers. While providing narration (which continues throughout the episode and, presumably, the season), Elsa (Isabel May) explains that no matter what the scholars call America’s Great Plains, they can best be described as Hell. We see just how dangerous the journey will be in the first moments of the show in a flash forward. While the destination is known, the journey promises to be perilous and epic, as the first episode - simply titled “1883” - shows in clear detail. 1883 will tell the story of how the Dutton’s came to settle in Montana and build their empire. Yellowstone follows the Dutton family in the modern day as they run and protect their cattle business and land in Montana amid numerous outside pressures.
