Great Western Pictures was formed by Buck Jones, Trem Carr and Scott R. Dunlap to produce the "Rough Rider" series. Each contributed $3300, or $10,000 total, to get things off the ground.
Lawman Bat Madison, who sends for the Rough Riders, is an allusion to iconic lawman William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson.
The term "sky pilot," which is used to refer to Tim McCall, is an old term for a member of the clergy.
The earliest documented telecasts of this film occurred in the New York City area Friday 20 August 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), in Chicago Saturday 11 December 1948 on WBKB (Channel 4), in Los Angeles Wednesday 19 January 1949 on KNBH (Channel 4), in Baltimore Saturday 2 July 1949 on WAAM (Channel 13), in Minneapolis Wednesday 20 July 1949 on KSTP (Channel 5), in Cincinnati Tuesday 6 September 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), and in Philadelphia Friday 7 October 1949 on Frontier Playhouse on WPTZ (Channel 3).
After Buck rides through the window--a stunt done several years earlier in Fox's big-budget Jesse James (1939)--while he does a reverse dismount and shoots two of the gang, none of the remaining henchmen fire even one shot at him.
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