Goofs

In some scenes General Crook has three stars in each shoulder strap, indicating the rank of lieutenant general, when he was only a brigadier general in 1876-1877. Possibly Crook's Sioux nickname of "three stars" - influenced the costume designer.

Considerable archive footage from previously filmed standard ratio films is cropped and blown up to CinemaScope proportions, resulting in fuzzy, sub-standard, mismatched footage which compares badly with the much clearer, freshly filmed CinemaScope material.

American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films identifies the character played by Suzan Ball as "Black Shawl" but she is first known as "Little Fawn," verbally repeated by various characters throughout the film, until her name is ultimately changed to "Black Shawl."

Seeing the ambush by the Native Americans, the general at the front of the cavalry alongside Dennis Weaver (who are all riding to camera in 2 columns) orders that the men riding immediately behind him in the right column all ride to their right, and that the men in the left column to all ride to their left - but the cavalryman who is second in the left column (just behind Dennis Weaver) rides to his right instead.