George Kennedy plays Katharine Ross' father, but he's only fourteen years and eleven months older than her.
Festus and Miss Kitty are playing matchsticks at the Long Branch. That's a game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows, and players alternately remove one to three of them. The object is to take the last matchstick, or, in other versions, to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick. It's more interesting than it sounds because neither player can predict how many the other will take.