Cara Dutton is the wife of Jacob Dutton and the matriarch of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch during Prohibition.
She is originally from Ireland. She and Jacob were married around the events of 1883. After James Dutton died from his wounds in 1893, she and Jacob made the trek to Montana as per Margaret's dire request. They arrived in 1894 to find Margaret dead from hypothermia and John and Spencer struggling to survive. Over the years, they expanded the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. While Spencer went off to the Great War, John stayed at Yellowstone to help and Emma, his wife, assisted Cara in any way she could. When John was murdered and Jacob wounded in an ambush by Banner Creighton and his gang of sheep herders, Cara, bearing the brunt of responsibility for the family, contacted Spencer to return home.