If not actually filmed there, then the producer and director did an excellent job recreating it as a set. Most of the movie was shot in California and New Mexico (certainly not eastern Oklahoma) but the scenes of the gallows and the judge's court and office look very much like Judge Parker's Court in Fort Smith that is also on the National Register of Historic Places. The river in "Hang 'Em High" is too small (even before the locks and dams) to be the Arkansas River but could stand in for the Poteau River the confluence of the two rivers occurs at Belle Point in Fort Smith. In the movie, Fort Smith becomes Fort Grant but a few of the place names used are actual names of towns nearby, such as Alma, Arkansas, and Poteau, Oklahoma. The house of ill repute in the film is a fictionalized version of Miss Laura's Social Club which still stands in Fort Smith and has the dubious distinction of being the only whore house on the National Register of Historic Places. Judge Parker had jurisdiction over a large chunk of Indian Territory (Oklahoma today). "Hang 'Em High" is a fictionalized account of Hangin' Judge Parker's court at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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