In the film, the conventions already long established in the genre are challenged and turned to comic effect: instead of the men saving the day through gunfights, you have women saving the men. You still have a bar-fight, but its a woman's catfight. You still have gambling with high stakes, but instead of someone losing a farm, you have him losing his pants.
The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
A western with a very similar plot and similar comic effects is Michael Curtiz's Dodge City.