This was the first movie directed by Robert Redford in which he appeared on-screen. However, he previously served as the narrator of A River Runs Through It (1992).
This movie was filmed in the same area as another Robert Redford movie, A River Runs Through It (1992), up the Boulder Valley, south of a small Montana town called Big Timber.
Theatrical movie debut of Kate Bosworth (Judith). She was chosen as they required an experienced rider for her role.
Listed in the closing credits as "Equine Technical Advisor" is a man named Buck Brannaman. He's the subject of a documentary titled Buck (2011), which relates his own troubled past and how he became a "horse whisperer". In this movie movie, there's a picture of Buck and his brother Smokie Brannaman in the montage of old family photos during a scene at the Booker home. It's the one with two young boys with Santa Claus; Buck is the boy on the left.