Director Allan Dwan recalled that Buster Keaton made an uncredited cameo appearance as a drunken cowboy getting tossed out of a saloon. The comedian visited the set one day and did the bit purely as a surprise gag; Dwan claimed he kept it in the film (while a couple of production stills showing Keaton (in costume and make-up) posing with the main cast survive, his scene has not been identified in existing prints) and said that Keaton, who had just signed with MGM and was about to begin work on "The Cameraman", the stunt "wasn't part of the scene at all . . . He did the stunt to amuse the Talmadge girls--he was married to Natalie Talmadge--who were on the set."
Allan Dwan shot part of the opening sequence at the historic San Fernando Mission in Mission Hills, CA. Before his death in 1981, Dwan (a Catholic) arranged to be buried in that mission's cemetery. His grave is in Section F.
This film is one of the first pictures where zoom lenses were used. They had just been invented.
The print of this film currently aired of TCM from time to time is short the last reel.