Last of the "Ranown Westerns", produced by Randolph Scott and his partner Harry Joe Brown under the Ranown Pictures banner. Scott decided to retire after this one, but two years later he was talked out of retirement by Sam Peckinpah for Ride the High Country (1962). After that film, Scott retired for good.
Shot in 12 days.
There are numerous mentions of the "Stage to Lordsburg," the title of the story on which John Ford's western classic Stagecoach (1939) to which writer Burt Kennedy is obviously paying homage.
The closing scene is the exact same shot as the opening scene, just printed in reverse (left to right).
After the parties leave the Comanche Station they cross a wide, shallow expanse of water and in the middle of the water, centered in the frame is a dead tree trunk that looks suspiciously like the hanging tree from Ride Lonesome (1959).