Johnny Bond, accordion player in the Jim Wakely trio, had a successful singing and song writing career. Bond had written hundreds of songs, including "Cimarron", "Ten Little Bottles", and "Hot Rod Lincoln". Bond and Tex Ritter partnered and started Vidor Publications, a music publishing firm.
This was the first of seven westerns that teamed Ritter with Johnny Mack Brown; they were the final films of Brown's four-year run at Universal.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 America's Greatest Music in the Movies for the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas."