This film was first telecast on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT Thursday 17 July 1941. It is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946.
At about 1:07, just after the locked-up "Sooners" rush Dan Carver who is cutting through a rail, the scene shifts to a team of horses pulling a wagon. The right "off" wheeler horse can be seen to go lame but continue running with a noticeable limp.
Ironically, tumbleweeds - the plant this movie is named after - are not native to Texas; they come from Russia.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American Movies.