The 69-year-old cowpoke, who in the show plays the patriarch of the Dutton family, spent a lot of his time riding on horseback under the blazing sun in the fictional Broken Rock Indian Reservation.

But in June 2024, the newly divorced actor announced he was departing the ranch to be an Arizona homesteader in 2024’s Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1, a box office bomb that he stars and produces.

“After this long year and a half of working on Horizon and doing all the things that that’s required and thinking about Yellowstone…I just realized that I’m not going to be able to continue,” the Wyatt Earp star explains to his fans on social media.

“It was something that really changed me. I