In Back to the Future (1985), when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) first enters Hill Valley on November 5, 1955, this film is playing at the Essex Theater.
This is one of four westerns in which Barbara Stanwyk was involved and where she played a strong woman leading men, dressed like a man. The others are "The Maverick Queen, "The Furies" and "Forty Guns".
The role of Farrell was originally offered to Robert Mitchum, who turned it down, because he didn't like the script. It was then offered to Ronald Reagan, who took it.
On January 14, 1989, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan watched the film at Camp David. It was the last film that Reagan watched before the end of his Presidency six days later.
The film was originally supposed to have a theme song. Composer Louis Forbes wrote a melody and asked noted Western songwriter Bob Nolan to contribute lyrics. The song, "Montana", was not used in the film, but Nolan's former group the Sons of the Pioneers recorded it.