Film scouts came to Oklahoma for possible locations but Alberta, Canada, was chosen to save money. Elliott quit the project over this since TNT had agreed to shoot in Oklahoma as an early condition of Elliott's involvement. Director Harrison convinced him to return but he has said that his biggest regret on this movie was not shooting it in on location. The film did have its premiere in a theater in Oklahoma City, and Elliott attended.
The film takes place in 1924.
The film was not shot in Seminole, Oklahoma, as the iron rich dirt is red, and there are no small mountains. However, anyone who has looked up the filming locations already knows this.
Sam Elliott was fifty-five when this was made. He played the seventy-year-old Tilghman. Carolyn McCormick was forty. She played Tilghman's wife Zoe, who was forty-four.
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