A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
Aged nearly 48 at the time of filming, Burl Ives was less than 12 years older than Chuck Connors, who played his son.
Steve Leech:
You know, McKay, you're a bigger fool than I thought you were. And to tell you the truth, that just didn't seem possible.
There are two kinds of mouth pieces cowboys use to handle a horse. In the scene where James McKay keeps on mounting and falling from that horse Thunder, sometimes the horse is using a "bridle" and sometimes he's using a "brake".
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