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Warning ! SPOILERS For 1923 Season 2 , Episode 6 , " The Mountain Teeth Of Monsters "

Spencer Dutton ( Brandon Sklenar ) play his family’s1883journey in1923season 2 , but Alexandra ’s ( Julia Schlaepfer ) experience has been even closer . Taylor Sheridan’s1923story is the second prequel aboutYellowstone ’s Dutton household . The earliest - fix Dutton family story witnesses Spencer ’s parent , James ( Tim McGraw ) and Margaret Dutton ( Faith Hill ) , make a northwest journey along the Oregon Trail . Spencer was n’t yet tolerate in the show ’s statute title twelvemonth , so Margaret ’s youthful child was n’t a part of the family ’s expedition from Texas to Montana .

Spencer was born after the family made it to Paradise Valley . While he missed out on his older siblings ’ enceinte thrill , Spencer ’s life and experiencegrowing up in the Old West were no less harrowing . Spencer lose both his parent to the frontier before his tenth birthday . Spencer ’s beginner died in a shootout with knight thieves , and his mother , Margaret , froze to demise in a snowdrift . While he was n’t in the cover wagon alongside Elsa ( Isabel May ) and John ( Audie Rick),Spencer , too , trip from Fort Worth to Paradise Valleyin1923season 2 , arriving from outside waters .

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Spencer Dutton Recreates His Family’s 1883 Journey

Spencer Travels From Texas To Montana In 1923

Shea Brennan ’s ( Sam Elliott ) wagon railroad train originate their Oregon Trail journeying in Fort Worth . From there , they cross the Brazos River in Texas and sail the plains . After evading almost every obstacle the trail hurl at them , James ’ family head for the mountains . The route is similar to thejourney that Spencer make in1923season 2 , albeit 40 years earlier . After Spencer make it by Italian freighter at the Port of Galveston in Texas , James ’ Word plans to room a railroad train in Fort Worth heading to the Rocky Mountains .

A closer smell at 1923 season 2 ’s subtle detail confirms the 2nd chapter of Taylor Sheridan ’s Yellowstone prequel actually takes place in 1924 .

Spencer gets sidetracked and targeted after unwittingly saving Luca ( Andy Dispensa ) , a member of the Maceo family , who manoeuver a offset of the Italian Mafia in Galveston . After overcoming several obstacles that ultimately extend toSpencer ’s phone call in1923season 2 , episode 5 , Jacob ’s ( Harrison Ford ) nephew gets a free ride on a train head to Montana , thanks to Marshal Mamie Fossett ( Jennifer Carpenter ) . WhileSpencer ’s journeying resemble his family ’s in many ways , things are relatively smooth - sailing once he boards the train .

1923’s Alex Dutton Recreated 1883’s Yellowstone Legacy, Not Spencer

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Alex’s Trip To Montana Upholds The 1883 Duttons’ Legacy

Alexandra Dutton Travels Like The Pioneers In 1923

While it takes piazza 40 class later , Alex ’s journey looks closer to the reality of Spencer ’s kinsfolk ’s misstep . Paul ( Augustus Prew ) mark this at the beginning of their journeying , say they will“travel like the pioneer . ”Spencer ’s family was one of the pioneer groups that Paul references , and his comparison is n’t much of a stretch . While Alex , Paul , and Hillary ( Janet Montgomery ) make their journey by auto , the trip-up through the raft has the same risk . Therefore , thoughAlex ’s friends in1923traveled further northward , from Chicago to Wyoming , their journeying better copy the Oregon Trail experience .

1923 time of year 2 ’s impending Dutton family warfare overshadowed Alexandra and Spencer Dutton ’s incredible love storey , the heart of the Yellowstone prequel .

The Oregon Trail was the ultimate route trip-up . While the journeying begin as fun - natured in1923season 2 , sequence 6 , technology has not evolved enough in the 40 old age that separate 1883 and 1923 to guarantee that the crew will make a good voyage , peculiarly in the winter . The biggest threat to the pioneers along the Oregon Trail was ultimately winter , which would immobilize the party in their tracks . This proves to be the case with Paul and Hillary , who ca n’t hot up themselves enough to go , despite their fancy motorcar , when it run out of gas and leaves them strand .

A custom collage of Cara and Jacob Dutton from 1923

1923 is a series following the Dutton family during the early twentieth century. It explores the challenges they face amidst pandemics, the end of Prohibition, historic drought, and the Great Depression, as they struggle to maintain their home in the mountain west.

As determined as James was to outrun winter in1883before Elsa ’s luck caused a detour , their journeying could have end like Paul and Hillary ’s at any sentence .

With their plans falling aside and provisions running light , Paul and Hillary reanimate a reliable Oregon Trail experience , just as the former predicted . The fate is similar to the one that James and his home stave off , withElsa ’s decease in1883potentially save the relaxation of her family . As compulsive as James was to outrun wintertime in1883before Elsa ’s fate caused a detour , their journey could have end like Paul and Hillary ’s at any time . From Tennessee , James ’ family did n’t know much about the cold , and it could have closed in on them as winter approached , killing them indefinitely .

Alex’s 1923 Season 2, Episode 6 Story Is A Harsh Reminder Of Yellowstone’s Themes

Nature Itself Is The Only Victor Of Life’s Innate Battle For Survival

Alex ’s trip from Chicago to Wyoming is a coarse admonisher ofYellowstone ’s base , further tying it to the prequel . A vernacular screw thread in1883,1923,andYellowstoneis thatpeople ca n’t beat nature . Elsa Dutton calls the viewer ’s tending to the wild and untamed quality of the land throughout1883.While Elsa ab initio romanticizes the journey , she has a serial of sobering realizations as members of her wagon string succumb to the landscape , such as when they drown in the Brazos . While humans seemed to have the upper hand by the 1920s,1923exists to disprove that .

There ’s a vital remainder between Elizabeth Strafford and Elsa Dutton , the young Duttons in Taylor Sheridan ’s prequels , do Elizabeth ’s struggle .

In1923season 2 ’s premiere , a mountain lion hunts the Dutton kinfolk from their porch . Similarly , a wolf bites Elizabeth Strafford ( Michelle Randolph ) in instalment 2 , raise thatCara Dutton ’s ( Helen Mirren ) clan is n’t good despite1923 ’s modern gizmo . Ultimately , human being ’s unfitness to curb nature is a monition that the film writer writes into all of his stories , and Paul and Hillary ’s fate is an exclamation mark for Taylor Sheridan ’s message . After Alex ’s friends die , Elsa Dutton ’s narrationin sequence 6 ’s ending monologue makes a grave statement , warn of a sixth heap extinction :

Alex at Ellis Island in 1923

Man ruin everything . He has been at war with this Earth since he first enter it . War with its trees . War with its weather . So is everything else . If it was up to the wolves , it would be wolves and nothing else . Same goes for the bear and the snake in the grass and the wanderer . Trees mature tall to rob sun from all beneath it . Nothing coexists . life story is a ceaseless country of battle for survival . And only one thing rings victorious : the world itself . Earth is not a benignant rock condemned to endure multitudinous little rapine from its inhabitants . It is a livelihood , evolving , interactional being capable of wiping all world by the simplest of wobble on its axis . There have been five mass extermination on this planet where almost all life was eradicated , its occupier cleansed from this place . It only stands to reason that a 6th one is amount .

Elsa extends Sheridan ’s message to John Dutton ’s ( Kevin Costner ) series , withElsa Dutton’sYellowstonenarrationcapping the season 5 stopping point . At the end of Beth ’s ( Kelly Reilly ) and Kayce ’s ( Luke Grimes ) account , Elsa Dutton warns that people can not own wild body politic . Spencer ’s babe reckons that to unfeignedly own demesne , you acquire it and“stack it with houses so deep , people can smell each other ’s supper . ”Her1923message warn that life is a unremitting battle for survival , and Paul and Hillary ’s preventable fate is a testament to what can happen when hoi polloi take civilization for granted , losing sight of that .

How Alex Can Make It To Yellowstone In 1923 Season 2’s Finale

Alex Must Wait For Help

Spencer ’s tardy older babe paints a grim realness in “ The Mountain Teeth of Monsters . ” It mirror Alex ’s quandary at theend of1923season 2 , episode 6 , prompting the monologue . Still , Alex has proven she is valorous , quick to press for her natural selection , which her asleep sis - in - law stresses the importance of . Alex can still make it to Montana , as long as someone eventually comes down the route she ’s strand on . Spencer ’s married woman just has to hold out and last out vigilantuntil then , finding some fashion to provide herself with nutrient , shelter , and warmness in the meantime , although her options are admittedly bleak .

1923 season 2 , instalment 2 shows what James and Margaret Dutton ’s 1883 ending could have been if thing had gone differently for Elsa Dutton .

Alex could add together insulation , grimly repurposing her friends ’ thickest stratum to stay warm . From there , I do n’t hypothesize Alex knows how to originate a attack , but that ’s where I would start in her predicament . In1923season 2 , instalment 2 , Jacob and Jack ( Darren Mann ) improvize a shelter when they are caught in a similar condition , tip over their wagon and crowd underneath it for rut . Alex does n’t have the same upbringing as Spencer and his house , but we have witnessed her inherent aptitude to survive in1923,and her dauntless action thus far prove she still has a chance .

A Screen Rant Custom Image of Alexandra and Spencer Dutton from 1923 season 2

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1923 is a serial publication follow the Dutton menage during the other 20th century . It explores the challenges they front amidst pandemics , the end of prohibition era , historical drought , and the Great Depression , as they shinny to hold their home in the mountain west .

Father Renaud (Sebastian Roche) shooting a revolver in 1923 season 2, episode 6

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