The $1,000.00 found among the ruins of the wagon train that was attacked, after accounting for inflation from after 1865, would be worth over $15,000.00 in 2019.
One of the plots in this episode is the election of a sheriff of Santa Fe. The position of sheriff is an elected county position. Santa Fe is a city in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. After the civil war ended (1865) , the city of Santa Fe had a population of about 4,700 and the total population of Santa Fe County was over 9,000.
Actor Kimo Owens (Fetterson) died at the age of 37 five months after this show aired.