When the person is hung in those days, it is on a raised platform. The dead drop, to break the neck for instant death. So why did his Indian friends go up to the top to retrieve the body? It's hanging from below the drop, just cut it from there rather then pulling the body up via the rope.
Lukas holds baby' breath, not gypsum weed, which have single,
trumpet-like flowers.
When Mark has a nightmare, he is tossing and turning in bed with messed up hair. However upon rising to check the window with his Pa, his hair is perfectly fixed.
Near the end, Lucas lassos a horse with an apparent rider. It is very obvious when he throws the rope that it falls in front of the horse's head. However when he pulls the rope it is around the neck of the horse.