Early working titles for the film includedLucky StrikeandThe Northern Story.The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.She was obsessing and fussing over the guest list, in particular, finding an "extra-man" partner for her single guest Carlotta: "I""m simply out of my mind.]He warily watched as Wez (who had been shot in his right bicep with an arrow) maniacally and threateningly screamed toward him - a declaration of vengeance.Some time afterwards - left alone by her mother""s death - Anna hides away with her shame in the village of Belden.