Trivia

The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in Syracuse on 5/8/49 on WHEN (Channel 8), in Detroit on 5/24/49 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Los Angeles on 10/19/49 on KTSL (Channel 2) and on 12/25/49 on KECA (Channel 7), in Philadelphia on 11/14/4914 November 1949 on WFIL (Channel 6), and in New York City on 7/10/50 on WOR (Channel 9).

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Although she was only eight years old when this picture was made, Shirley Jean Rickert had already had a fairly extensive movie career. She may been the only actor to be a regular player with the two most popular "kids' series" in Hollywood; she was a member of Our Gang for Hal Roach and a featured player with Mickey Rooney in the Mickey (Himself) McGuire series.

Shirley Jean Rickert's presence as an obvious white child in a black wig can partially be explained when Morell says her mother was a full blood Osage and her father "a no good white man". Interestingly, several Native Americans appear at the beginning, receiving their oil lease money. They undoubtedly enjoyed a day's pay, even from poverty row Lone Star.

Phillip Kieffer, who plays Hodges in this film, had been a Major in the US Army, and later became Technical Advisor for John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy and other westerns with a military presence.