Dr. Mike and Kid Cole leave the store to attend the revival meeting as Sully pays Mr. Bray for a Bible. When Mike and Kid arrive at the meeting Loren is already there.
No frontier doctor would keep their clean bandages upstairs instead of the clinic exam room.
The old fashion viewpoint of the townsfolk would have questioned a female preacher even more than a female doctor. The first documented female preacher was ordained in the Congregationalist Church in 1853.
The show features the song "Old Time Religion" which wasn't a published hymn until several years after the show is set.
Sister Ruth appears to be Pentecostal but the Pentecostal movement started with the Azusa Street revivals almost forty years after the show is set.
This show is set in 1868, but the song Old-Time Religion was published in 1889.
Johnny Cash sang the song Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, an African American folksong first recorded in 1920. Although based on a bible verse, it is unclear how or when he could have known it in 1868.
The song Go Tell it On the Mountain was an African American spiritual song first published in 1909, over 40 years after this show's setting of 1868.
June Carter Cash had help driving her wagon. At the beginning a crew member's head is visible near her feet since the wagon has a cut-out space for a second person with reins.