![]() Though she and Sam acknowledged that she was his wife, he felt he could not leave his lands and people, and Elsa agreed to return to him after her family had completed their journey and found a homestead. Later, Elsa became entangled with Sam, a Comanche warrior who saved her life on the trail. Along the trail, she fell in love with a cowboy, Ennis, and the two planned to marry before Ennis was shot by a group of bandits. At the age of seventeen, she set out on a wagon train with her family in search of a new start in the west. ![]() Passionate and willful, Elsa was a skilled horseback rider and cowgirl, much to her mother’s chagrin. Spirited Elsa ( Isabel May) was the eldest child of James and Margaret Dutton and served as the narrator of 1883. A strong leader and fiercely protective of her family, she set out with James and their family on the trail westward, only to settle on a homestead in Montana after the death of their daughter Elsa. The confident and uncompromising wife of James, Margaret (Faith Hill) was the Dutton family matriarch in 1883. Following the death of Elsa on the trail, John and his remaining family decided to settle in Montana, on what would one day become the famous Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. Along with his wife, Margaret, their children, Elsa and John, James’s sister Claire, and Claire’s daughter Mary Abel, James set out with a wagon train from Fort Worth, Texas, but the journey was dogged by tragedy. ![]() ![]() Haunted by his experiences in the Civil War, where he served in the Confederate army during the Battle of Antietam and was later held as a prisoner of war, James chose to strike out for a new life out west with his family in 1883. The patriarch of 1883, James (Tim McGraw) was a farmer from Tennessee. ![]()
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