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1923 Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
1923
Sun, Dec 18, 202261 mins
Ancestral blood waters the scorched earth of Montana as the Dutton family battles an encroaching modern world and a relentless, unforgiving wilderness. Jacob manages a violent powder keg of territorial disputes between desperate cattlemen and invading sheep herders while Cara mentors a newcomer on the brutal emotional toll of their legacy. Across the ocean, Spencer hunts lethal predators in the African brush, carrying the invisible, heavy scars of a war that followed him home.
Episode 2
Nature's Empty Throne
Sun, Dec 25, 202248 mins
Jacob Dutton and his ranch hands ride into the aftermath of an ambush, pulling their wounded from the dirt while calculating the cost of retaliation. Miles away, Teonna survives another day of brutality under Sister Mary's watch at the boarding school, her spirit bending but refusing to break. At the Yellowstone ranch, Cara and Emma navigate the delicate matter of Elizabeth's place in Jack's future. Across the ocean, Alexandra throws away security for something wilder, more uncertain--more real.
Episode 3
The War Has Come Home
Sun, Jan 1, 202358 mins
Jacob and Cara Dutton venture into town alongside their family, navigating business dealings that mask deeper territorial tensions. Meanwhile, Spencer and Alexandra surrender to their passion, choosing urgency over caution as danger stalks their every move. Back home, the Dutton clan confronts a brutal reality: the war with the sheepherders has only just begun, and the cost of their land will be measured in blood, betrayal, and impossible choices that threaten to unravel everything they've built.
Episode 4
War and the Turquoise Tide
Sun, Jan 8, 202355 mins
The result of the rifle ambush by the sheep farmers is severe. Jacob is bedridden with multiple gunshot wounds. Jack and Elizabeth face struggles in their relationship. Elizabeth's mother Beverly wants to take her back east, but Elizabeth wants to stay and marry Jack. Cara tells Beverly that Elizabeth will decide what her life will be, not her. With so many of his allies dead, Creighton is short of manpower. He meets with the mining magnate Donald Whitfield to gain support for his war against the Dutton family. In exchange for money to hire himself an army, he tells Whitfield that the mineral rights to the Yellowstone Ranch will belong to him when he takes it over. Creighton and his cronies rustle a bunch of cattle on an outlying piece of land. Jack is ready to go after them. Jacob counsels them to let go of the stock; they can rebuild and seek retaliation when Spencer gets home. Cara asks that the foreman take a letter she has written to Spencer to be mailed. He is instructed to say nothing about the situation to the sheriff. An upcoming stockmen's meeting is expecting Jacob to be there to run it; since Jacob cannot even sit up in bed, he tells Cara to take over leadership. Cara represents Jacob at a meeting of local cattle owners and convinces the cattlemen to agree to the Duttons' plan, which will allow them to control the fate of those who trespass on their grazing lands and steal their livestock. After incessant abuse from Sister Mary, Teonna finally kills her and Sister Alice before fleeing the school. In Zanzibar, Spencer grows closer to his fiancée Alexandra. One night, Alex finds a stack of letters that Spencer has carefully saved. She thinks they are from a former girlfriend and asks about them. He tells her they are from his Aunt Cara. He never read them because they would bring up unwanted memories of home. Alex begins to read them, and Spencer tells her to continue. She gets to the last one in which Cara writes of the range war that is in progress and a plea to come home. Spencer asks when it was posted. "Three months ago," she replies.
Episode 5
Ghost of Zebrina
Sun, Feb 5, 202370 mins
Spencer and Alexandra embark on a treacherous voyage from Africa back to Montana, navigating oceanic storms and the aching weight of separation from home. Meanwhile, the Dutton valley becomes a chessboard where Banner and Whitfield scheme to seize control through manipulation and violence. Teonna fights desperately for liberation from the boarding school's brutal system, risking everything to reclaim her identity and future. Three parallel journeys collide: one across continents, one through corruption, and one toward survival itself.
Episode 6
One Ocean Closer to Destiny
Sun, Feb 12, 202355 mins
Teonna burns her clothes in the campfire to destroy evidence of her association with the school. She dons an outfit belonging to Hank's son and adopts the name Joe. When Hank's son returns, they will head to meet her father. A couple of men hunting for Teonna show up at her aunt's home; when the aunt objects to their intention to search, they push her away and she falls and hits her head on the stove, causing a fatal injury. Spencer finds his way to the hull of the tug that the ghost freighter capsized. He desperately calls Alex's name and is rewarded with pounding from inside. He dives into the water and swims underneath. She is in the air pocket inside the boat. He helps her gather her courage before the two swim to the outside. They set up temporary quarters on the hull. Spencer says that he was able to radio their position to another ship before they were hit by the freighter. He allows Alex to use his shirt for shade while they wait. In the dark, the HMS Lambridge finds them. They are taken aboard. It is bound for France. Spencer asks the captain to marry them. He is not willing to wait any longer to be permanently associated with Alex. Besides, it will help make getting her past US immigration officials easier. They celebrate in their small ship cabin. Cara and Sheriff McDowell begin hiring some new Livestock Officers. On the ranch, Jacob is doing more walking and even saddles up his horse. He notes that roads are being cut into the mountains as the mining industry gains momentum. Cara knows that Jacob is bound on vengeance and calls him on it. To throw some interference into his plans, she has told the sheriff about the ambush that lead to the gun battle. He comes to the ranch and tells Jacob that he'd better not go out gunning for the sheep ranchers. He and his deputies will make some arrests to help bring justice to the situation. Jack and Elizabeth are fascinated by her developing pregnancy.
Episode 7
The Rule of Five Hundred
Sun, Feb 19, 202352 mins
The Dutton empire fractures under mounting pressure as Banner confronts an outcome he never anticipated, forcing the family conflict into uncharted territory. Across continents, Spencer and Alexandra press forward into the unknown after parting ways with Captain Shipley, their voyage growing more treacherous with each passing mile. Meanwhile, Teonna wages her own desperate battle for survival, caught in a system designed to destroy her. Three narratives converge on a single truth: some fights demand everything you have, and the cost of survival keeps climbing.
Episode 8
Nothing Left to Lose
Sun, Feb 26, 202368 mins
Jacob Dutton's Montana burns as cattle baron conspiracies ignite into open warfare. Marshals hunt a young Indigenous woman fleeing systematic violence while she discovers fleeting sanctuary among strangers. Across the Atlantic, newlyweds Spencer and Alexandra battle maritime danger that threatens their desperate race home. Three colliding storylines converge toward a season finale in which every character faces the brutal cost of survival in an unforgiving era. The Dutton legacy teeters on the edge of extinction as enemies close in from all sides.
