Is it really a cameo appearance if you make eight of them throughout the series? Well, if Stan Lee is any indication, we’ll still count it, especially given Buck Taylor’s extensive history with the Western genre. Appearing in the very first episode of “Yellowstone,” Emmett Walsh is introduced as a close friend and confidant to John Dutton, and also serves as the former chairman of both the Stockgrowers Association and Montana Fish and Game. Needless to say, he’s a very powerful friend who’s helped steer Dutton on a better path more than once.

From Season 1’s “Daybreak” until the Season 5 episode “Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow, and You,” Taylor makes a total of eight separate appearances on “Yellowstone,” and while he isn’t exactly a main character or even a driving force throughout the series, he nevertheless makes an impact on the show. In his final Season 5 appearance, Walsh dies doing what he loves while in the open fields of Montana. A lifelong cowboy couldn’t ask for much more than that.

Taylor himself is a Western legend, having appeared in eight seasons and 173 episodes of “Gunsmoke” as Newly O’Brien and reprising his role in the 1987 TV movie “Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge.” Outside of television, Taylor has appeared in “Tombstone,” “Cowboys & Aliens,” and the Taylor Sheridan-penned film “Hell or High Water.”

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