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15 Shows Like Yellowstone — Ranch Wars, Family Dynasties, and the Modern American West

Can't get enough of the Duttons and their Montana empire? These shows deliver the same Western power struggles, land wars, family loyalty, and sweeping American landscapes.

15 FILMS·April 2026·By MoviesPack
Section 1

What Yellowstone Actually Is

Yellowstone is a soap opera in cowboy boots, and that's a compliment. Taylor Sheridan understands that the Western genre is fundamentally about **who owns the land and who gets erased so they can own it** — and he gives that violence a modern face. The Dutton family sits at the intersection of capitalism, indigenous rights, and old American mythology, and the show is smart enough to not fully excuse any of them. These 15 shows either extend Yellowstone's universe or capture its particular flavor of dusty American drama. [Use our tool: Shows Like Yellowstone](/shows/similar/yellowstone) — algorithmically matched

Section 2

The Closest Matches

1883
01

1883

2021–2022
★8.7IMDb
James and Margaret Dutton lead a wagon train of desperate European immigrants from Texas to Montana in the 1880s. The journey breaks people. Elsa Dutton — James's daughter, who narrates from somewhere in the future — falls in love twice and buries things she can't recover. Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill are perfectly cast. The voiceover narration tracks the cost of the journey in real time, death by death, until only enough people survive to claim the land that becomes the Dutton ranch.
Why it matters

It explains why the Yellowstone ranch exists and what it cost. Knowing that history makes every scene in the modern show carry more weight — the ranch isn't just property, it's a graveyard.

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1923
02

1923

2022–present
★8.2IMDb
The Duttons again, in the 1920s — Jacob and Cara Dutton hold the ranch together through Prohibition, drought, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs' systematic assault on indigenous families through forced boarding schools. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as Jacob and Cara give the show a weight and intelligence that occasionally exceeds the original. The boarding school storyline is among the most important things Sheridan has produced.
Why it matters

The same epic Western scope with historical specificity that makes the Dutton mythology feel genuinely rooted in American history rather than just genre atmosphere.

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Longmire
03

Longmire

2012–2017
★8.1IMDb
Walt Longmire is the sheriff of a Wyoming county working through his wife's murder while managing crimes that keep touching the Cheyenne reservation next door, old ranching families, and the modern development threatening both. Based on Craig Johnson's novels. Slower and more thoughtful than Yellowstone, but it uses the same Wyoming landscape and the same structural question: whose land is it, and what does the answer cost?
Why it matters

The most intelligent procedural on this list, with the most nuanced portrayal of the relationship between Western law enforcement and indigenous communities.

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Justified
04

Justified

2010–2015
★8.6IMDb
Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens shoots a cartel hitman in Miami and gets transferred back to his home state of Kentucky as punishment — which is not a punishment, because Harlan County is exactly where Raylan belongs and where he causes the most trouble. What follows is six seasons of the best contemporary Western since Deadwood. Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), Raylan's childhood friend turned criminal entrepreneur, is one of TV's great villains-who-might-actually-be-right.
Why it matters

The wit is sharper, the moral landscape more interesting, and the Harlan County setting does the same work Montana does in Yellowstone: a specific American place with its own codes and its own violence.

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Deadwood
05

Deadwood

2004–2006
★9.0IMDb
The Dakota Territory gold rush town of Deadwood in the 1870s, just as civilization — law, property rights, political representation — is arriving, and the people who profited from lawlessness are desperate to hold it back. Al Swearengen runs the Gem Saloon and is the most pragmatically intelligent person in any room he enters. David Milch's language is Shakespearean profanity applied to American history. Three seasons and a film, cancelled too soon, beloved forever.
Why it matters

The foundational text for everything Yellowstone is trying to do. Where Yellowstone romanticizes its patriarch, Deadwood examines the violence that built America without nostalgia.

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Section 3

The Western Drama Shows

Godless
06

Godless

2017
★8.3IMDb
An outlaw named Roy Goode flees the gang that raised him and takes shelter in La Belle, New Mexico — a town he doesn't know is almost entirely populated by women after a mining disaster killed most of the men. The gang follows. The women's community and the outlaw's violence collide in a limited series that rewrites Western genre assumptions about who is capable of what. Visually one of the most beautiful Westerns ever made.
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The Son
07

The Son

2017–2019
★7.4IMDb
Eli McCullough is taken captive by the Comanche as a boy in 1849 Texas, raised by them, and eventually returns to white society carrying both worlds inside him. The show cuts between Eli building a cattle empire and his great-grandson Pete in the 1910s watching the family transform from ranching to oil. Pierce Brosnan as the patriarch. It examines the violence underlying all American land ownership with more explicitness than Yellowstone usually allows itself.
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Outer Range
08

Outer Range

2022–present
★7.2IMDb
Wyoming rancher Royal Abbott is fighting his neighbors over a disputed property line when he discovers a mysterious void in his west pasture — a black hole in the ground that opens onto something impossible. Around the same time, a drifter named Autumn arrives to camp on his land and his family starts to fracture. Part Western family drama, part cosmic mystery. Josh Brolin is perfectly cast as a man for whom the frontier mythology is real and who finds reality itself shifting.
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Joe Pickett
09

Joe Pickett

2020–present
★7.9IMDb
Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden — not a sheriff, not a ranger, a game warden — who keeps finding serious crimes in the wilderness he's supposed to be managing. His family is complicated, his boss doesn't like him, and the distinction between official law and local law in rural Wyoming is perpetually blurry. Based on C.J. Box's novels. Lower-key and more procedural than Yellowstone, but the landscape and the tension between different ideas of order are consistent.
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Section 4

The Family Dynasty Shows

Tulsa King
10

Tulsa King

2022–present
★7.8IMDb
Dwight Manfredi, a New York mafia boss who just finished a 25-year prison sentence, expects to be welcomed back. Instead, his boss exiles him to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with instructions to build a criminal operation there from scratch. He doesn't know anyone, doesn't speak the language, and can't figure out why anyone in Tulsa does what they do. Sylvester Stallone is perfectly deployed — aging, stubborn, somehow charming — and the fish-out-of-water comedy is Sheridan's most purely entertaining show.
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Walker
11

Walker

2021–present
★7.0IMDb
Texas Ranger Cordell Walker returns home after a long undercover assignment to find his son barely knows him, his daughter resents him, and the community he grew up in has changed in ways he doesn't recognize. He's trying to figure out who he is outside of the job while still doing the job. More procedural than Yellowstone and considerably gentler, but the Texas Ranger mythology, multigenerational family dynamics, and land-as-identity themes are consistent.
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Big Sky
12

Big Sky

2020–present
★6.9IMDb
A private detective and an ex-cop in Montana start looking into a kidnapping and find themselves in a criminal conspiracy that keeps expanding in directions they didn't expect. Created by David E. Kelley, it uses the Montana landscape the way Yellowstone does: a setting where the rules of ordinary life don't quite apply and everyone is hiding something under the big sky.
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Heartland
13

Heartland

2007–present
★8.3IMDb
The Fleming family runs a horse ranch in the Alberta foothills, and Amy Fleming has a gift for healing horses that other trainers have given up on. The show follows multiple generations navigating relationships, loss, and the specific rhythms of rural family life across seventeen seasons. It's the warm-hearted opposite of Yellowstone's darkness — no political violence, no criminal operations — but it fills the same need for a show where the land and the people on it are inseparable.
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Section 5

The International Equivalent

Mirzapur
14

Mirzapur

2018–present
★8.5IMDb
Two brothers from a middle-class family in Purvanchal get drawn into the criminal empire of Akhandanand Tripathi — Kaleen Bhaiya — a local warlord who rules the region through fear, favors, and the threat of his unstable son. The brothers rise through the empire until betrayal reshapes everything. The Uttar Pradesh setting — rural, politically complex, with its own codes of honor and violence — does the exact same work Montana does in Yellowstone: a specific place with its own rules about who owns what and who pays for challenging it.
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Virgin River
15

Virgin River

2019–present
★7.4IMDb
Mel Monroe, a nurse practitioner from Los Angeles, answers an ad for a job in tiny Virgin River, Northern California, partly to escape a grief she doesn't want to name. The town has its own rhythms, its own feuds, and eventually a man worth staying for. Much gentler than Yellowstone — no gunfights, no land wars — but the show understands that small towns protect their own kind of violence: the social kind, slow and long-remembered.
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Section 6

Quick Match Guide

| Want... | Watch | |---------|-------| | Direct universe extension | 1883, 1923 | | Smarter version | Justified, Deadwood | | Mystery/supernatural twist | Outer Range | | Family drama without the violence | Heartland | | Indian equivalent | Mirzapur | | Historical Western | Deadwood | | Lighter, funnier | Tulsa King | | Female-centered Western | Godless |

Section 7

Want More?

- [Full list: Shows Like Yellowstone](/shows/similar/yellowstone) — 20+ algorithmic matches - [Western shows](/shows/mood/western) — the American frontier - [Family dynasty shows](/shows/mood/family-dynasty) — power and blood - [Crime drama shows](/shows/mood/crime) — violence and consequence - [What show should I watch?](/shows/discover) — random recommendation

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