Taylor Sheridan says he wanted to retire after 'Yellowstone,' but he needed money for his $330 million ranch

"Yellowstone" creator Taylor Sheridan said buying a $330 cardinal ranch kept him from retiring.

On Tuesday's section of the "Rodeo Time" podcast hosted by Dale Brisby, Sheridan said his acquisition of the Four Sixes Ranch prompted him to motion a deal pinch Paramount and proceed working.

"I was group up to retire. I was going to beryllium done aft 'Yellowstone,'" Sheridan said.

The writer and producer said he had already paid rate for different ranch successful Weatherford, Texas, and "didn't beryllium anybody anything."

"I was going to put my feet up and show horses, and person my small hobby herd complete here, and that was it," Sheridan said.

However, buying the Four Sixes Ranch meant Sheridan couldn't discontinue conscionable yet. "I knew that if I bought this ranch, I was not going to beryllium quitting my time occupation for a while," he said.

The opportunity to bargain the ranch came aft its then-owner, Anne Marion, died.

Sheridan, who had met her while filming "Yellowstone" there, said the ranch was group to beryllium divided and sold, but Marion had asked her property to find personification who would "maintain her vision."

"And, so, the personification they came up pinch was me," Sheridan said.

When they approached Sheridan astir buying the ranch, the spot came pinch a hefty price tag. "I said, 'Well, boys, I'm a small short. In fact, I'm astir $300 cardinal short,'" Sheridan said, recalling his response.

He said the imaginable of buying the ranch led him to reconsider an "exclusive deal" pinch Paramount, which he had antecedently resisted.

"They were terrified that I was going to spell to greener pastures and time off them and spell location else, which I astir apt was," Sheridan said.

"But erstwhile this happened, I called them, and I said, 'You cognize what? I deliberation I'm fresh to make an wide deal.' And they said, 'That's great. Do you person a number successful mind?' And I said, 'Why yes, I do,'" Sheridan said.

However, Sheridan's business pinch Paramount whitethorn soon beryllium winding down. Puck reported successful 2025 that he was set to time off Paramount for NBCUniversal erstwhile his existent woody expires.

Inside Sheridan's portion of Texas history

Founded by Samuel "Burk" Burnett successful 1870, the Four Sixes Ranch is known for its Angus cattle and Quarter horses, per its website. It remained nether the Burnett family for generations, yet passing to Marion, Burnett's great-granddaughter.

Marion's will required the family's ranching operations to beryllium sold aft her death, according to the property's listing. The main Four Sixes Ranch, spanning 142,372 acres successful King County, was listed for $192.2 million. It was offered together pinch 2 abstracted properties, the Dixon Creek and Frisco Creek ranch divisions, which were listed for $137.3 cardinal and $12.2 million, respectively.

Texas Land Magazine reported successful June 2022 that Sheridan put together a group of investors to bargain the ranch. It said the woody closed successful January that year, and "all parties signed a confidentiality statement preventing disclosure of the last waste price."

"The woody was all-inclusive — 3 ranches and each inventory," Sam Middleton, the listing supplier and agent who represented Marion's property during the sale, told the magazine.

Sheridan, meanwhile, said the scripts he wrote while "Yellowstone" accumulation was unopen down during the pandemic helped him unafraid a controlling liking successful the investment.

"I wrote a bunch," Sheridan said successful an question and reply pinch The Land Report published successful June 2022. "I sold capable scripts that I was capable to go the mostly proprietor successful the partnership."