According to Fred H. Detmers, Technicolor's domestic sales manager, in the June-July 1968 issue of "Films in Review," this was the last film shot in the Three-Strip Technicolor process; however, according to a number of other reliable sources, Foxfire (1955) holds that distinction.
Parts of the film were shot in Colorado River, Professor Valley, and Courthouse Wash in Utah. The film was also shot on location in Moab, Utah, by the Colorado River.
Highly unusual for the normally slipshod Universal, the firearms in the film were absolutely correct for the Civil War era. All revolvers were percussion and the longarms, though fleetingly seen, appeared to be muzzle-loading Springfields.
Filming began on 3 June 1953, the same day as Universal's The Glenn Miller Story (1954). The two films were the first movies made at Universal for four weeks.