Just finished rewatching Yellowstone and got thinking about who actually ended up the richest lol. Like obviously Beth Dutton walked away with the most money by far - that woman had serious corporate finance jobs at places like Schwartz & Meyer and Market Equities was throwing major offers at her. She's the only one with real liquid wealth, not just land sitting there. Her actor Kelly Reilly basically played someone who understood the money game better than everyone else in that family combined.

Meanwhile John Dutton was literally land-rich but broke the whole time. Seven generations of Duttons owned that massive ranch but it was bleeding money constantly - labor costs, taxes, infrastructure, all that stuff. When he died it was a whole thing because there was no estate plan and the taxes were insane so they had to sell to Chief Rainwater. Kayce did okay though, worked out a deal to keep 5,000 acres and sold the rest for basically nothing ($1.25 per acre) so he could start fresh with Monica and their kid.

Jamie was making decent money as Montana attorney general, probably around $145k a year, but then his sister literally stabbed him so that didn't work out. Beth's the clear winner here - she's got the actual cash, not just property. Kind of wild how the show really showed the difference between having real wealth versus just owning valuable land.