 Most of the extras seen on film are the families who owned the covered wagons and were perfectly at home driving them and living out of them during the production.The film premiered in New York City on 16 March 1923 and ran 98 minutes.A musical soundtrack was recorded in the short-lived DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, but sources vary on whether this record soundtrack was of the entire score or about two reels worth of the film.