The Yellow Stone Prequel premiered Sunday December 18 on Paramount+
The Dutton family tree expands with every Yellowstone iteration, and the generations go further back yet again in 1923 and here's the full crew of the Yellowstone prequel.
The 1923 characters follow the familiar structure viewers have come to know from this franchise. There’s the Dutton family with their various spouses and children, plus workers on the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch who are as good as blood relatives.
Then there comes the Capitalist nemeses who are chomping at the bit to get hold of the Dutton's land.
And then there’s the Indigenous peoples narrative of the story, which will be represented by a Residential Boarding School in 1923, the histories of which are a chilling, grim, and brutal part of American history.
Harrison Ford will be essaying the role of Jacob Dutton
Husband to Cara, Jacob became the patriarch of the Yellowstone Dutton ranch after his brother ranch founder James Dutton died. Both had one other sibling, Claire Dutton.
This makes Jacob the great-granduncle of Costner’s John Dutton III. Jacob and Cara have no biological children.
Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton
She is the Dutton family matriarch and wife to Jacob, and so runs the Dutton home with Emma Dutton as the cowboys tend to the land and livestock.She’s the great-grandaunt of Costner’s character by marriage.
James Badge Dale as John Dutton, Sr.
John is the oldest nephew and the right-hand man of Jacob. He and older sister Elsa Dutton were seen as children in 1883.
John is married to Emma and father to Jack. He’s is presumed to be the father of John Dutton, Jr., who would one day father Costner’s character, making him John III’s grandfather.
Marley Shelton as Emma Dutton
Emma is the dutiful wife of John Dutton, Sr. who helps Cara keep the ranch and home running.
Over its possible two seasons, 1923 may reveal when the Yellowstone patriarch’s father, John Jr., is born, making John Sr. and Emma John III’s paternal grandparents.
Darren Mann as Jack Dutton
John and Emma’s son and grandnephew to Jacob and Cara. He is a dedicated rancher who is deeply loyal to his family. Jack is engaged to Elizabeth Strafford (Michelle Randolph) in the beginning of 1923.
Jack is presumably John III’s uncle.
Michelle Randolph as Elizabeth Strafford
Elizabeth is a courageous young woman all set to marry into the Dutton family where she exchanged vows with fiancé Jack.
Brian Geraghty as Zane Davis
Zane is a fiercely loyal ranch foreman. Think of him as 1923‘s Rip Wheeler. Not related by blood, but still family.
Brandon Sklenar as Spencer Dutton
John Sr.s younger brother, Spencer is from the Montana in 1923. He was a soldier in the first World War and carries terrors with him.
Aminah Nieves as Teonna Rainwater
A young Indigenous woman at the School for American Indians in Montana, a government residential boarding school.