NEWSTaylor Sheridan Was 'Set Up to Retire' Before Buying His $330 Million Texas Ranch
Taylor Sheridan almost retired before buying the Four Sixes Ranch for $330 million.
Aug. 21 2026, Updated 1:21 p.m. ET
Taylor Sheridan had considered retirement before deciding to buy the Four Sixes Ranch for $330 million — his second ranch in Texas.
“I was set up to retire. I was going to be done after Yellowstone. I’d bought the ranch in Weatherford, and I paid cash. I didn’t owe anybody anything,” he said on the "Rodeo Time" podcast.
Image of Taylor Sheridan wanted to retire before buying the Four Sixes Ranch.
“And I was going to put my feet up and show horses and have my little hobby herd over here and that was it," he continued. "I knew that if I bought this ranch that I was not going to be quitting my day job for a while.”
Before buying the ranch, Sheridan made sure the general manager would stay on for the day-to-day duties, and that his son would take on the responsibility of running it in the future.
Taylor Sheridan Shared What Led Him to Buy the Ranch
Image of Taylor Sheridan filmed several episodes of 'Yellowstone' season 4 on the Four Sixes Ranch.
Sheridan first met the ranch's then-owner, Anne Marion, while arranging to film several episodes of Yellowstone Season 4 there.
After Marion passed away, the writer-director recalled learning that the ranch had not been left to her daughter in her will and was, instead, going “to be broken up and sold off.”
“But before they did that, she had asked if they would try to find someone who would maintain her vision,” he said. “And, so, the person they came up with was me.”
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Sheridan Signed an Overall Deal With Paramount to Secure the Ranch
Image of Taylor Sheridan was offered the Four Sixes Ranch for $330 million.
When he was offered the ranch for $330 million, Sheridan told them, “Well, boys, I’m a little short. I don’t have, in fact, I’m about 300 million short.”
Meanwhile, Paramount had reportedly been "after" him "to make an overall deal."
Per the Landman writer, “They were terrified that I was going to go to greener pastures and leave them and go somewhere else, which I probably was. So, they’d been for years trying to get me to sign an exclusive deal with Paramount, and I’d said no.”
Taylor Sheridan signed up an overall deal with Paramount to buy the Four Sixes Ranch.
However, when he was offered the Four Sixes Ranch, Sheridan recalls calling the studio to say, “‘You know what? I think I’m ready to make an overall deal.’ They said, ‘That’s great. Do you have a number in mind?’ And I said, ‘Why, yes, I do. I sure do.'”
That was that, and the Lioness creator ended up leading a group of investors to purchase the ranch, with the sale closing on January 21, 2022.
