Gold Rush in Reverse" of the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the former, Beale is instructed by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, played by Harry Fleer, to conduct an experiment with the use of camels in the deserts of the American Southwest. William "Red" Reynolds (1927-1981) was cast as mountain man Kit Carson. In the second episode, Beale attempts to be the first to return East with a sample of newly discovered California gold, but he must escape Mexican bandits to do so. Another actor, Charles Bateman, played Beale in another Death Valley Days episode, "Stubborn Mule Hill," which aired in 1963. In that episode, David McLean played Army scout Kit Carson. Beale was played by Rod Cameron in the 1954 Western film Southwest Passage. As in "The Camel Train", Beale is conducting an experiment with camels in the American Southwest, whilst at the same time surveying a new route across the desert and mountains. See also Ridge Route - 1937 photograph of Beale's Cut Newhall Pass - Beale's Cut References Further reading Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, Wagon Route From Fort Defiance to the Colorado River, House Executive Document 124, Serial 959, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1857–58. Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, Wagon Road – Fort Smith to the Colorado River, House Executive Document 42, Serial 1048, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1859–60. Bonsal, Stephen, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, A Pioneer in the Path of Empire, G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1912, . Lesley, Lewis B., Uncle Sam's Camels; the journal of May Humphreys Stacy supplemented by the report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1857-1858), Harvard University Press, 1929. Bowman, Eldon G. with Smith, Jack Beale, Beale's Road Through Arizona, Flagstaff Corral of Westerners International, 1979. Thompson, Gerald, Edward F. Beale and the American West, University of New Mexico Press, 1983, . Smith, Jack Beale. A Guide to the Beale Wagon Road Through Flagstaff, Arizona. Tales of the Beale Wagon Road Publishing Co. 6508 South Douglas Ave. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73139. 1984. Smith, Jack Beale. A Guide to the Beale Wagon Road Through the Kaibab National Forest. Tales of the Beale Wagon Road Publishing Co.1987. Smith, Jack Beale. Kerlin's Well A Unique Site on the Beale Wagon Road. Tales of the Beale Wagon Road Publishing Co. 6508 South Douglas Ave. Oklahoma City Okla. 73139.1986. Smith, Jack Beale. John Udell the Rest of the Story: With an Adventure on the Beale