Yellowstone has come to an end after five gripping seasons. The Paramount Network flagship series aired its final episode on December 15, 2024, concluding the Duttons’ story and revealing the fate of their ranch.
All through the fifth and final season, Beth and Kayce tried to figure out a way to save their ranch amid increasing taxes, while also dealing with the death of their father, John Dutton. In the penultimate episode, Kayce came up with a plan that could protect the legacy of the land while also getting rid of their financial troubles.
In the Yellowstone season 5 finale, Kayce acts upon the plan and sells the ranch to High Chief Thomas Rainwater, chairman of the Confederated Tribes of Broken Rock and leader of the Broken Rock Reservation. The series ends with the Broken Rock Reservation taking over the land.
Broken Rock Reservation got the Dutton family ranch in Yellowstone finale
Yellowstone season 5 episode 14 shows Kayce Dutton meeting with High Chief Thomas Rainwater and Mo to discuss the future of the ranch. He realizes that the only way his family can protect the land's legacy is by selling it to someone who has an emotional connection with it and would not resell or develop it.
Kayce stresses that he is in no condition to pay inheritance tax on the property, and highlights that Rainwater would also not be able to afford the tax. Hence, he decides to sell the Dutton ranch to the Broken Rock Reservation at a price of $1.25 per acre, the same amount for which the land was bought generations ago.
The total price of the land amounts to only $1.1 million, which aids them in avoiding inheritance tax. Meanwhile, Kayce puts two conditions in front of Rainwater.
He wants to keep his home at East Camp, where he can restart his life with his wife and son; and he wants a promise from the reservation that they would not sell or develop the ranch.
As Rainwater agrees to the conditions, the two finalize the deal by slashing their palms and shaking hands, becoming blood brothers. Rainwater emphasizes that the land is sacred for him and he will do everything he can to protect its legacy.
In the final sequence of the Yellowstone finale, Mo arrives on the land with his group and begins to dismantle the ranch. As his men start to dig out the headstones from the Duttons’ graves, Mo stops them and safeguards the honor of its former owners.
The Yellowstone ranch has been returned to its original owners
The Duttton ranch has seen a poetic fate as it has been returned to its original owners, after being with the Duttons for seven generations. The land’s ownership was explored in the prequel series 1883.
In the show, John Dutton’s ancestor, James Dutton, is seen settling in Paradise Valley in Montana, a place where his daughter is buried. The same land would later become the Yellowstone ranch.
At the time, Spotted Eagle, the Chief of the native Crow Tribe, tells James that his people will take the land back in seven generations. James then tells him, “In seven generations, you can have it.”
The prophecy finally comes true in the Yellowstone season 5 finale. At the end of the episode, the spirit of James’ daughter Elsa Dutton is seen, who concludes the series with a monologue and ties it to its prequel shows. She says:
“One-hundred-and-forty years ago, my father was told of this valley and here’s were we stayed, for seven generations. My father was told they would come for this land, and he promised to return it.”
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“Nowhere was that promise written. It faded with my father’s death but somehow lived in the spirit of this place. Men cannot truly own wild land.”
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