Bat Masterson mentions to Allen Harper that he has ambitions to be a journalist someday. The real Masterson lived to be sports editor of the "New York Morning Telegraph".
The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-1950, incorrectly omits sixth-credited Steve Brodie as Logan Maury, and mixes up the roles played by Billy House, Virginia Sale and Harry Woods. They are correct in the cast listing here (after being advised of the error, the American Film Institute added Brodie to the cast list and now has the correct list in its catalog).
As depicted in the film, Kansas became a wheat-producing state after a heat-resistant strain was introduced to the land. The strain, which was brought in by Mennonite settlers, was called Turkey Red.
The real Bat Masterson was the Sheriff of Dodge City from 1877 to 1879. After he was voted out of office, he went to Tombstone, AZ, with Wyatt Earp but returned to Dodge City in 1883 to help gambler friend Luke Short fight local reformers in the "Dodge City War". From then until the end of the century, Masterson was a professional gambler in Colorado. As depicted in the film, Masterson aspired to a writing career and, at the end of his life, became a drama critic and sports reporter in New York.
The Liberal, KS premiere featured a four-mile parade with twelve bands, Indians from the Annadarko reservation, soldiers from Fort Riley, as well as cowboys, stagecoaches and other western regalia.