Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey

Laura Breckenridge

Jed Hooker

Mr. Perkins

Thorston Bromley

Fat Henry Hobson

Cousin Leroy

The Fisherman

Hank

Pete (as Bob Adler)

Blacksmith

Big Annie

Clem

Mrs. Perkins (as Amanda Harley)

Corporal

Agnes

Background Narrator (voice)

Denver Buggy Driver (uncredited)

This movie was one of Burt Reynolds first ever big starring roles.

This movie is one of a number of screen westerns that Burt Reynolds made during the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s. These movie westerns include Navajo Joe (1966); 100 Rifles (1969); and The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973).

Angie Dickinson's character is called Laura Breckenridge in this movie. During the era that this film was made, there was a controversial movie made called Myra Breckinridge (1970). However, that movie was actually first released about a year after this film came out.

The steamboat's smokestack was wobbling back and forth in the river current when the guys first saw it. A steamboat smokestack wouldn't still be standing against the river current if it were that loose.

O.W. had Sam Whiskey shoot his Gatling-style gun, but Sam was hitting below the targets. O.W. said he was adjusting for Sam's eyesight and raised the front sight, but then he shot it himself and hit the targets. Raising the front sight would lower the trajectory of the bullets even further, not raise it. And the adjustment was for Sam's eyes, not O.W.'s, yet O.W. was the one who shot the gun and hit the targets after raising the front sight.

Laura Breckenridge: You've got to bury him.

Narrator: General Sherman said, "War is hell." "Worse than that," Sam said, "The pay's bad."