The movie set location is in Gammons Gulch, Arizona, in a specially constructed Western-style town for tourists and commercial enterprises. The saloon was newly built for the movie.
When asked why he got involved in the movie, Peter Coyote answered that it was mainly to support "Bill" [William Shockley], but that he also liked Westerns, and, that he would like to support "this guy Dustin" [Dustin Rikert].