A Jewel Production. From its earliest days, Universal, lacking its own theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system to distinguish and market its feature product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions that attempted to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). This branding system would end in late 1929.
To film the cattle stampede, Harry Carey and director Stuart Paton chose the Agoure Ranch in California and stationed cameramen on platforms among tree branches. Then fifty cowboys from the ranch started the stampede and drove the herd directly toward the trees.