Spencer finally made it to Montana at the end of 1923 season 2, fending off Banner Creighton’s (Jerome Flynn) men at the train station in Livingston and the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch.

Still, the majority of 1923 viewers had little empathy for Elizabeth Strafford, especially in 1923 season 2. Terrible things also happen to Spencer’s wife, Alex, in the show’s second season ...

For those of us that are still heavily invested in Yellowstone's Dutton family, and the history of how the Montana family ...

Only the latest example of this phenomenon is the season 2 renewal of 1923, the Yellowstone prequel set in—you guessed it!—1923, with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as the resident Dutton patriarch ...

The trouble is, 1923 never brings it up. At the end of 1923 's second season, we learn that Spencer and Alex's (Julia Schlaepfer) son is John Dutton Jr., named after Spencer's deceased brother.