Screenwriter Burt Kennedy's line, spoken by Pernell Roberts, "There are some things a man just can't ride around," is an echo of a virtually identical line used by Randolph Scott in The Tall T (1957), another entry in the Scott/Brown/Boetticher series.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American Movies.
The "pointy bra" Karen Steele wears throughout the movie was not invented yet, and was the fashion in the late 1950s.
All of the following would later star or guest star in Bonanza:
Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best, Lee Van Cleef, and James Coburn.