I watched last night and I still plan to watch the next 3 installments, too.
My friend, Ken, and I could not unstand why the "owner" of the ranch and head of the ranch family wore a dress-up vest and a tie so much of the time. Why did they make the man and his family to be "fictional" people who had moved from San Francisco back East to Texas?
We both had lots of questons about how they were doing things on that show which seem to be contrary about what we personally know about the old West. Both of us have experience as country boys who grew up around farm and ranch animals.
I also found it interesting that in their church service, the wife was in charge. While that might have happened in 1867 Texas, I don't think that it would have been likely. Women ministers were rare in those days.
But, then again, this is just another reality TV show where most of the participants don't know that much about what really went on in the old ranch days of the 1800s and early 1900s.
I don't know all there is to know about the old West; but, my paternal grandfather, Lewis E. Doty, and his wife was in the land run of 1889 when they opened the Cherokee Strip in North Western Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma. Due to illness in the family and the death of a child, they left the homestead and moved over into what was the Creek Nation and into Okmulgee, the capitol. Grandad was a butcher when he as there. After Oklahoma became a state, the family moved back to the same area and lived in a house instead of a dugout. My father was born on July 4, 1911, 4 years after OK statehood.