The final show starring Sheb Wooley as Pete Nolan, the trail scout. In this episode, he left the trail drive to join the army to help peace negotiations with the Pawnee.
Gil Favor was a captain in the Confederate Army.
This episode has strong connections to John Wayne. Three cast members frequently appeared in Wayne films: Harry Carey, Jr., a close personal friend of Wayne, was in ten films with The Duke; Edward Faulkner was in six Wayne films; and Hal Needham had small roles in five. In addition, the director, Andrew V. McLaglen, was the son of Wayne pal Victor McLaglen and directed The Duke in five films.
Fort Brace is identified as being in the U.S. Army's Department of Texas. The Department existed from 1850 to 1866 (except for the Civil War years) and again from 1870 to 1913 and during World War I. It was subordinate to the Military Division of Missouri. This would explain why the soldiers at the fort were involved with the Pawnee, which was a Central Plains nation primarily of Nebraska and northern Kansas. By the 1870s the Pawnee Nation had dwindled from 60,000 to about 2,400 people and had been forced to move to Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma. This area was under the military jurisdiction of the Missouri Division, which included the Department of Texas.