Goofs

When Colonel Gearhart comes back to his shave after confronting Cora in her bath, the trooper acting as barber puts shaving soap in selected spots on his face. When they go to a full-face shot of the Colonel, his chin is fully lathered and then the lather is only in selected spots again as they cut back to the side view.

During the close-up of Oracle Jones squatting during the dust storm, his horse is behind him. When the shot pulls back to show the various groups ride by, his horse cannot be seen.

When the townspeople and miners first meet with Oracle Jones, the cork of the whiskey bottle appears and disappears atop the table where Jones is playing solitaire.

When Cora Massingale is in her bath, 3 rapid cuts show her with her arms outside the bath, then inside, then outside again.

When Colonel Gearhart is returning from patrol, he hears the women's temperance group in the fort as they march, sing, and fire cannon. There is still plenty of daylight for his troops to deploy a skirmish line as they advance. Meanwhile, inside the fort just several hundred yards away, it is so dark that they have torches burning so they can see where they are marching.

The narration at the beginning says the Indians were given papers saying they were good citizens. Indians (Native Americans) did not become citizens until 1924.

Alaska was purchased by the United States on March 30, 1867. The movie is set in November of the same year, eight months later. Military plans would have been made and acted upon by that time. Colonel Gearheart's threat was real.

When Colonel Gearheart is seen drinking with Sergeant Buell at the end of the Temperance meeting, the oil lamp has an electric cord running from it.

The acetylene miners' lamps worn throughout the film would not be introduced for another 30 years.

The rifles issued to the Indians in the year 1867 are Winchester 1894 models.

Colonel Gearhart threatens to send the Army band to Alaska, but Alaska was only purchased from Russia in March of the year the film is set (1867). It is unlikely that Alaska would have been an option for a posting quite so quickly.

A member here states that the rifles issued to the Indians were Winchester 1894s. The 1894 had a wooden forestock. The rifles in the movie have no such forestock. They appear to be Civil War-era Henry repeaters. The Army did not retain them after the war and made them surplus. The Sioux and Cheyenne had some at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. The 7th Cavalry had breech-loading, single-shot Springfield Model 1873 carbines and the 6-shot (though usually only 5 rounds were loaded) 1873 Colt single-action revolver.

The Indian horses obviously have saddles under their horse blankets.

The locations are supposedly Denver and points east. The terrain should include the Front Range of the Rockies and high prairie. Instead, arid, rugged, red rock terrain more typical of Utah is shown.

How did the ladies know that Oracle Jones was *not* wearing his red long-johns and how did they recognize it as his.

When Oracle Jones comes back to Frank Wallingham after marking the trail, he tells Frank that he will "have to give up the ten wagons in the exchange". Since Oracle was out marking the trail while Capt Slater was negotiating and then briefing the Colonel, he could not have known that there would be an exchange taking place and that only ten wagons (not the 20 originally demanded) would be given over to the Indians.

When the ladies are in the Quicksand Bottoms, moving the stakes, it is probable that some of them would fall victim to the quicksand,

While the Indians are holding the women hostage and demanding 20 wagons for their release, a trooper calculates it at 3 7/8 women per wagon, making the number of women 77 1/2! Later, the Colonel states the number to be 27, a number not disputed by the leader of the women.

When Capt. Slater comes back from negotiating with the Indians, he refers to 20 *barrels* of whiskey, then 8, then 13 and says they finally agreed to 10 *wagons*. Each wagon held multiple barrels, so what was agreed upon was a significantly higher amount than what was first stated by Capt. Slater.