The Kit Carson character played minor roles in other 1930s Westerns like the 1936 "Sutter's Gold", loosely about the California gold discovery, and the 1939 "Mutiny on the Black Hawk", an odd Western with a mutiny on a slave ship that lands in California with Kit Carson and others ready to save the day. The 1940 western titled "Kit Carson" stars Jon Hall (as Kit), Dana Andrews (as Fremont), and others. Kit joins Captain John Fremont to guide a wagon train just as Mexican General Castro orders all Americans from California, then the conquest of California begins, a tale enlivened with gratuitous Indian attacks. Filmed in Kayenta, Arizona and nearby Monument Valley, Navajo were hired as part of the crew.