The winter has brought new challenges for the Dutton family as 1923 season 2 begins. The road to Bozeman has frozen over and due to hard times, the Dutton family is down to four bulls and one hundred heifers. That is what Spencer Dutton will have to work with when he returns, as the heir to the Dutton throne. Jacob and his men have resorted to hunting. Gone away are the feasts of old and into the days of sacrifice. For now, they impatiently await spring and Spencer’s return.

Numerous chilling factors come into play during the Great Depression, and it’s not just humans who have to figure out a way to survive and adapt. Animals find their struggles too in the snow-filled mountains of Montana. Both starving and cold, a mountain lion makes its venture up onto the Dutton porch. Starving, perhaps finding warmth, possibly both. When Jacob Dutton...