Films: Follow Taylor Sheridan

No one has done more to put North Texas on screen than Taylor Sheridan. The Paschal High graduate behind Yellowstone built a production empire out of Fort Worth and its ranch country, and in a few short years he has filmed a remarkable run of shows here — 1883 and Lawmen: Bass Reeves in the Stockyards, Landman across downtown and Weatherford, the Yellowstone sequel at a Weatherford ranch, Special Ops: Lioness downtown, The Madison at his Alliance soundstages and in downtown Dallas, and Frisco King in Southlake and Keller. This driving trail follows his camera across the metroplex: the steakhouse he bought and put on screen, the bootmaker and hotel from Landman, the courthouse that's played a Ranger HQ and a 1920s lawman's seat, the studio campus that anchors it all, and the small-town café where a whole Western town was built next door. Most stops are real places you can walk into; a couple — the studio and the ranch — are private and best seen from the road. Bring a full tank: the trail runs from downtown Fort Worth out past Weatherford to Strawn and east to Dallas.