Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, thrilled with the possiblities offered by the trip West in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, excited that her father wants her to help watch over the cattle herd in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, watching her mother in action and learning a newfound respect in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, enjoying the thrill of flirting with a cowboy in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, marveling over the memory of a first kiss in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, admitting to her mother that she might be falling in love in 1883 (2021-22)
The West, according to Elsa
Elsa Dutton: “When I looked out over this land, I only saw the freedom it promised. I knew nothing of the horror that hides in freedom’s shadow.”
Elsa Dutton: “The world doesn’t care if you die. It won’t listen to your screams. If you bleed on the ground, the ground will drink it. It doesn’t care that you’re cut.”
Elsa Dutto, after firing several bullets into a bandit who harmed someone close: “Maybe killing this man will get my eyes back. Maybe it won’t. But I chose to find out.”
Elsa Dutton, of the Great Plains: “To know it, you must walk it. Bleed into its dirt. Drown in its rivers. Then it’s name becomes clear. It is hell. And there are demons everywhere.”
Elsa Dutton, as the wagon train recovers from a tornado: “I haven’t thought once of Oregon. No dreams of the ocean or snow-covered mountains. I only dream of the journey. That is all. No gold for me. Just the rainbow.”
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, bathing while a cowboy looks on from afar in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Else Dutton, reacting to another tragedy on the trip West in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa, casting a wary eye toward a pair of Comanche braves in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, learning how Comanche warrior Sam acquired his name in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, watching Sam ride off to meet with her father in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, letting her mother know she’s fallen in love again in 1883 (2021-22)
Elsa Dutton, of her decision to stay on the Plains: “I understood my mother’s worry. My choices made no sense in her world … To import the traditions of the place you fled, the place that failed you, is to condemn the place you seek to the same failures.”
Elsa Dutton, as the wagon train heads toward the mountains: “If land can have emotions, this land hates. It hates us. And everyone can feel it.”
Elsa: “To survive the frontier, you must learn to recognize those who won’t. And be wary of their doomed decisions. They’re to be avoided at all costs. Because their fear is tragedy’s closest cousin. And tragedy is contagious in this place.”
Elsa: “There is a moment where your dreams and your memories merge together and form a perfect world. That is heaven. And each heaven is unique. It is the world of you.”
Elsa, aka Lightning Golden Hair: “My heaven is filled with good horses and open plains and wild cattle and a man who loves me. It is always sunrise in my world. And there are no storms. I’m the only lightning.”
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, struggling to survive an Indian attack in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, coming face to face with a Comanche warrior in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, Montana-bound in the back of her family’s wagon in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton heads to Paradise Valley with her father James (Tim McGraw) in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, riding Lightning back to the Great Plains in 1883 (2021-22)
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton, embracing the unknown until it becomes her life in 1883 (2021-22)
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