Watched Yellowstone? What's next?
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Yellowstone is one of the most requested DVDs I’m asked about at the desks right now, and for which I get the most recommendations requests. So what ARE some watch- and read-alikes? Here’s a bunch of titles to further your exploration of the wild West and beyond from the comfort of our little town:
* A note for this blog post: due to the nature of Yellowstone (Television program) [unrated], most of these recommendations include some adult content, violence, drugs and alcohol, language, and/or dark/gritty storylines.
Shows:
1883 Prequel to Yellowstone
Breaking Bad Another hit TV show with a huge following and great acting, dark/gritty storyline
Deadwood Gritty show about the brutality of life in the Old West
Dynasty Feuding family members, constant drama
Firefly Space, scifi, fantasy, western
Hell on Wheels Western show taking place during the time of the building of the transcontinental railroad
Longmire Western detective show set in Absaroka, WY, inspired by novels of Craig Johnson
Peaky Blinders Gangster family epic set in 1919 England
The Son Caught between two ways of life, Eli lives a lonely life fitting as neither what he was born into nor what he was raised into. Warning: Suicide, self-harm
Star Trek Space is, after all, the final frontier - we had several staff members make an argument for this
Westworld “A dark odyssey … exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. No rules, no laws, no judgment. Live without limits.”
Movies:
Books:
Fiction:
Bad Moon Rising | Galligan, John
The Cold Dish | Johnson, Craig - Longmire Series of books
The Only Good Indians | Jones, Stephen Graham
Open Season | Box, C.J. - Joe Pickett Series of books
Upright Women Wanted | Gailey, Sarah
Virgin River | Carr, Robyn - for something a bit softer, but still cut off from today’s city life/amenities, out in nature/small town
Nonfiction
A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn : the last great battle of the American West | 973.82 D719 - for general fans of the old west
The Compton Cowboys: the new generation of cowboys in America’s urban heartland | 979.4 Thompson-Herna 2020
Saving Yellowstone: exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America | 978.752 Nelson 2022 - for general fans of the old west
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Heaven | 289.33 K858 - modern day with family and clan feuds and violence, which also has a colonizers vs natives layer as well
Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks | Fodor's Yellowstone and Grand Teton national Parks | Compass American guides (Series) | 917.8752 Fodor’s 2021
Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks | Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks | 917.8752 Lonely 2019
Kanopy:
The American West [Great Courses]
"Hud" (1963)