- State your business with the Fort.
(body thuds)
- And action.
- I suggest you take her to Fort Laramie.
Nothing I can do for you here.
- We went into the Fort to try to get Elsa healed up.
- We're with C Y Ranch.
- C Y a part of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association.
- Part of it.
- We realized that the bad guys that we'd killed
who had said they were deputies were part of this sort
of conglomerate of this rancher who owned the territory
at the time, we couldn't go to Laramie.
We had to get out because they were gonna be looking for us.
Go north, hit the Bozeman Trail.
- At that point, they're down to just a couple of wagons
and Shea tells the immigrants that were gonna go north
in winter in the Bozeman Valley.
I need everyone to gather round.
And there's a certain group of them that say,
no, we're going, we don't need you.
We're gonna go on our own.
- We'll make it to Oregon without you.
- That's another ill fated bunch.
(gun fires)
So they head north.
- Where are we going?
- Montana, honey.
- Wonder what that'll be like.
- We have to deal with it and move on.
- And action.
- At the beginning, Margaret and Elsa
have such a contentious relationship.
When Elsa gets hurt, you just start seeing how troubled
and how heartbroken Margaret is over it.
To me, it's one of the transformations
in the show that is so heart wrenching
and so breathtaking, to see that relationship develop
between them and understand that there
was always love there.
They were just two strong-willed women.
- And I think up until the very end
we're just trying to save this child's life.
She is going to die.
There's no way she's going to survive.
- I know a place for ya.
I don't know the words in your language
but when you die, you go there.
- Paradise.
That whole conversation with Spotted Eagle,
I think it shows the respect that James has
for the Native people.
But it also shows how much he cares
about getting his daughter to a place
that that's where they're gonna live.
- Let me choose the spot.
- You choose the spot.
- James and Shea have become close.
We each bring a certain heaviness
that there's shared sadness between 'em.
- I watched this girl for the last six months.
She's outlived me.
She's outlived all of us.
- Seeing the evolution and the gain of respect
for each other and how much that they become brothers
in this thing is pretty incredible.
He said it to Margaret a couple of times,
wherever we bury her is where we're gonna stay.
- I'll see in the valley mama.
- I'll see you there.
- She and her father ride away from her family,
shot it at the Yellowstone Ranch.
She finds her tree that she just knows deep down
is her resting spot.
- Stop.
- And she gave so much as an actress.
She looked up at me and said
what do you love most about your daughters?
I just fell apart.
When she dies and she's laying on my lap
it was just an out of body experience
of how touching it was.
I mean everybody on set was crying.
It was hard to get through
but it worked and it was really beautiful.
And knowing the journey that we had been on
to get there kept all that in mind.
- That's the Dutton origin story.
That's where her family story begins.
That was her purpose was to get them there.
- Josef arrives in Oregon but the price
that he had to pay is immense.
- Unfortunately it doesn't end very well for Risa.
I do hope that somewhere in her personal heaven
Risa makes it to Oregon and she gets her happily ever after.
- I don't think he has processed what happened
in order not to break down.
I think he keeps going.
He finds this piece of land and starts working on it.
It's a bit like a tribute to Risa.
What it will mean for him in life,
I think he will realize many years later.
- Noemi and Thomas, they've seen a lot.
I don't think Thomas really believed it was gonna happen.
And it does.
This is it.
That's the most beautiful kind of love that I can imagine.
- They made it to Oregon.
This is the unknown for Thomas being in Oregon.
This relationship is the unknown for him.
He's a father figure kind of now.
I didn't expect that.
Reading it, I was just, you know, towards the end,
how's he gonna die?
How's he gonna die?
- You want the river, I'll stake you a river.
- Then you made it like, wow, Taylor, thank you.
Me and an immigrant made it to the end.
It's an amazing, amazing story.
- Shea wants to rejoin his wife.
You know, that kind of drives him to get
to Oregon where he's, in his mind
taking his wife to see the ocean.
He believes that her eyes are in him.
She always wanted to see the ocean.
Just look at that Helen,
isn't it beautiful?
He's had his life.
He feels that he has done what he was here to do
and he wants to see her again.
(gun fires)
Then it cuts to Elsa and Sam and they are going to heaven.
- Race ya.
(Elsa laughs)
- As a mom of three daughters to see a writing
with such strength for a woman
at that young age is such a gift and so remarkable.
It's just so real and powerful.
These are real things that happened to people,
I'm just floored.
It's epic.
There's no question about it.
- A huge portion of the United States' past,
this is what had happened.
This is the journey our ancestors took.
So it comes all the way around.
- And there's nothing clean and pristine
about this show.
You feel it you're in the moments.
It was pretty incredible.
- The thing about 1883, it is,
there's a certain amount of authenticity here
that everybody's after and it speaks to me.
I think it speaks to the viewers as well.
It's special.
It's very special.
(intense music)