Der Schuh des Manitu American Western named Lone Ranger. He was also fighting in the name of justice and was normally accompanied by his Native American friend Tonto. Abahachi's homosexual twin called Winnetouch is a persiflage on Winnetou. His beauty farm called "Puder Rosa Ranch" (“Powder Rose Ranch”) is a play on the name of the ranch in the Western TV series "Bonanza" that was owned by the Cartwright family and was called Ponderosa Ranch. The seductive beauty called Uschi is named after Uschi Glas, the actress that played the Native American girl Apanatschi in Winnetou and the Crossbreed. The grandfather is called "Grauer
Ponderosa Ranch with a scale replica of the Cartwright ranch house and barn similar to the ones seen on television. A replica of Virginia City was later added. The original plan was to open the set to tourists once filming had wrapped. However, shuttling cast and crew up to Incline Village on a weekly basis became cost-prohibitive. Thus, only 15 episodes of "Bonanza" were shot there. A majority of ranch-specific scenes were shot on a sound stage at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Outdoor scenes were filmed on location at nearby Big Bear Lake, Red Rock Canyon, Mojave, or eastern Kern County, California.