The title refers to the final chore every evening during a cattle drive: pointing the tongue of the chuck wagon at the North Star so that drovers could get their bearings the next morning.
Emile Avery is seen in two parts in this show - bar patron and Indian, part of Chief Johnny Cake's tribe.
Clint Walker does not take his shirt off in this episode.
Michael Forest, most famous to many Star Trek fans for appearing as the god Apollo in the 1967 episode Who Mourns for Adonais, makes his fourth appearance as an actor. He appeared in five episodes overall.