The horse known as "Duke"--which was also John Wayne's nickname--appeared with him in six films: The Big Stampede (1932); Haunted Gold (1932); Ride Him, Cowboy (1932); The Telegraph Trail (1933); The Man from Monterey (1933); Somewhere in Sonora (1933).
Remade under the original title in 1935/36 starring Dick Foran.
Seven years later, Wayne and Churchill would be reunited in the former's breakthrough film, Stagecoach (1939).
According to the film's file at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, John Wayne did all of his own stunts for this picture.