Yellowstone has created a dynamic cast of characters that viewers alternatively love hate and love to hate. The Dutton family has endeared itself to many, and viewers have been loyal to them   Season 4 of the show set record ratings unlike those seen since the height of  The Walking Dead.





Rip Wheeler  Cole Hauser  the foreman of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, is a consistent fan-favorite character. He has been dedicated to John Dutton Kevin Costner since John took him in as a teenage runaway. He has stoic and a man of few words but throughout he has a heart of gold, especially when it comes to John's daughter Beth Dutton whom he marries in the Season 4 finale.


Rip is also beloved because he is the consummate cowboy. As the ranch foreman, he is the first up in the morning and often the last to end his work day. He's ruthless and masculine and tends to fight many of the ranch's biggest foes. He also acts as a leader to the other ranch hands and cowboys employed by John.


Luckily, the lasting impacts of these accidents aren't too dissimilar from what Rip deals with on a daily basis. As John Dutton's right-hand man, Rip is battered and bruised, not just from the toll of the work, but from the wars he wages for the survival of the ranch. And those wars leave him with his fair share of heavy hits. "So it's all... the walk, I put a little bit more into the brokenness of Rip versus me," he told Gold Derby. "So I accentuate a little bit of the limp, the back pain, or the getting up and getting down, or having to bend down to give [Beth] a kiss."