Charles Stevens, who plays a drunken Indian, repeats the role in director John Ford's remake, My Darling Clementine (1946). Stevens, who was half Mexican and half Apache, was the grandson of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo.
Eddie Foy Jr. plays the part of his father, Eddie Foy, as he does again in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Wilson (1944).
Eddie Foy originally met Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson in Dodge City, KS, when he first started touring. It is rumored that he was in Tombstone performing at the time of the OK Corral shootout.
Early in the film, Carter (John Carradine) tells a Tombstone resident that he was driven out of Lordsburg. Carradine also co-starred in Stagecoach (1939) that same year, based on the story "Stage to Lordsburg."
The production put a million tons of sand on the back lot to make it like the desert. Many wagon-loads came up from the beach and filled the place with sand for over half a mile wide.