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* Howard Keel]was cast as [iamond Jim Brady in a 1963 episode of the same name. In the story line, while traveling by train in Texas, Brady accepts a nearly impossible wager that he can sell $100,000 worth of barbed wire to area ranchers who oppose such fencing without leaving the train.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556597/?ref_=ttep_ep8|title=Diamond Jim Brady on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 8, 2018}}</ref>

* Howard Keel]was cast as [iamond Jim Brady in a 1963 episode of the same name. In the story line, while traveling by train in Texas, Brady accepts a nearly impossible wager that he can sell $100,000 worth of barbed wire to area ranchers who oppose such fencing without leaving the train.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556597/?ref_=ttep_ep8|title=Diamond Jim Brady on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 8, 2018}}</ref>

* DeForest Kelley was cast as Shad Cullen, with William Schallert as Dave Meiser and Dick Foran as Ferguson, in the 1962 episode, "The Breaking Point." In the story line, Meiser suspects that a friend is trying to swindle him out of a valuable mine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556768/?ref_=ttep_ep10|title=The Breaking Point on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> In 1963, he was cast as Civil War wounded warrior Clint Rogers. In the story line, gang leader Jeb Daley (Joseph Ruskin), earns a "Coffin for a Coward" when he murders Rogers' foster father. Rogers orders the coffin to galvanize support among townspeople of Aurora, Nevada , plagued by division over the continuing war.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556581/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Coffin for a Coward on ''Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 11, 2019}}</ref> Kelley subsequently played a convict, Martin, in the 1965 episode "Devil's Gate," with Jim Davis, and he was the gambler Elliott Webster in the 1966 episode, "The Lady of the Plains," with Sherry Jackson.

* DeForest Kelley was cast as Shad Cullen, with William Schallert as Dave Meiser and Dick Foran as Ferguson, in the 1962 episode, "The Breaking Point." In the story line, Meiser suspects that a friend is trying to swindle him out of a valuable mine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556768/?ref_=ttep_ep10|title=The Breaking Point on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> In 1963, he was cast as Civil War wounded warrior Clint Rogers. In the story line, gang leader Jeb Daley (Joseph Ruskin), earns a "Coffin for a Coward" when he murders Rogers' foster father. Rogers orders the coffin to galvanize support among townspeople of Aurora, Nevada , plagued by division over the continuing war.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556581/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Coffin for a Coward on ''Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 11, 2019}}</ref> Kelley subsequently played a convict, Martin, in the 1965 episode "Devil's Gate," with Jim Davis, and he was the gambler Elliott Webster in the 1966 episode, "The Lady of the Plains," with Sherry Jackson.

* Don Kennedy (born 1920) was cast in the lead role of Snowshoe Thompson, also the title of the 1954 episode. In the story line, while Thompson used home-made snowshoes to carry the mail across the snows of the [[Sierra Nevadas]] into the various California mining camps.. Thompson is considered the "father of California skiing."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556736/|title=Snowshoe Thompson on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Don Kennedy (born 1920) was cast in the lead role of Snowshoe Thompson, also the title of the 1954 episode. In the story line, while Thompson used home-made snowshoes to carry the mail across the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains into the various California mining camps. Thompson is considered the "father of California skiing."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556736/|title=Snowshoe Thompson on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Don Kent (1911–1978) played William Bottle in the 1956 episode, "Bill Bottle's Birthday." In the story line, Bottle nets $100,000 from the sale of a gold claim. He places advertisements in major newspapers inviting his Bottle relatives to attend a family reunion times with his birthday. While various "relatives" come to the party, they are imposters, but Bottle treats them warmly as if they were family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556559/?ref_=ttep_ep9|title=Bill Bottle's Birthday on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 23, 2018}}</ref>

* Don Kent (1911–1978) played William Bottle in the 1956 episode, "Bill Bottle's Birthday." In the story line, Bottle nets $100,000 from the sale of a gold claim. He places advertisements in major newspapers inviting his Bottle relatives to attend a family reunion times with his birthday. While various "relatives" come to the party, they are imposters, but Bottle treats them warmly as if they were family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556559/?ref_=ttep_ep9|title=Bill Bottle's Birthday on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 23, 2018}}</ref>

* Brett King appeared as Butch Cassidy, with Robert Knapp and June Dayton as Tom Dixon and wife Rose in "The Devil's Due" (1960). Dixon was a former outlaw trying to change his life and marry his sweetheart who is threatened when a member of his former gang,  arrives in town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556777/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=The Devil's Due on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 11, 2018}}</ref>

* Brett King appeared as Butch Cassidy, with Robert Knapp and June Dayton as Tom Dixon and wife Rose in "The Devil's Due" (1960). Dixon was a former outlaw trying to change his life and marry his sweetheart who is threatened when a member of his former gang,  arrives in town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556777/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=The Devil's Due on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 11, 2018}}</ref>