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Yet progress saves him or helps every season:
major surgery removing part of colon
xray on a mobile vet detects ruprtured ulcer
flying helicopters
cell phones
hospital keeps him alive for 90 day coma
Beth is using online trading to take down companies
Driving from Texas to Montana with ease

I think this is actually a good contrast with the other series 1883. Basically you have all these people dying on a trip from Texas to Montana. One guy falls off a wagon and is run over and dies, but then you have Jimmy and Taylor Sheridan making the trip with ease in their trucks hauling horses. Have to think Sheridan was trying to say something with this.