Children of the Dust

Children of the Dust (1995)

Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.

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  • First Air Date: 1995-02-26
  • Last Air Date: 1995-02-28
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 2
  • Episode Runtime: 240 min.
  • Network: CBS
  • Director: David Greene
  • Creator: David Greene

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Seasons

  • Season 1

    2 Episodes

Trailer

Cast

  • Sidney Poitier

    Gypsy Smith

  • Michael Moriarty

    John Maxwell

  • Farrah Fawcett

    Nora Maxwell

  • Katharine Isabelle

    Young Rachel

  • Joanna Going

    Rachel

  • Billy Wirth

    Corby/White Wolf

  • Regina Taylor

    Drusilla

  • Robert Guillaume

    Mossburger

  • Jim Caviezel

    Dexter

  • John Pyper-Ferguson

    Sonny Boy

  • Grace Zabriskie

    Rose

  • Byron Chief-Moon

    Chief Walks-The-Clouds

  • Shirley Knight

    Aunt Bertha

  • Basil Wallace

    Fulton

  • Kevin McNulty

    Sheriff Harriman

  • Mitchell LaPlante

    Young Corby

  • Zachary Savard

    Young Dexter

  • Jesse Lipscombe

    Clarence

  • Lindsey Campbell

    Miranda

  • Brent Stait

    Ballenger

  • Charles Andre

    Nez

  • Eric Keenleyside

    Boss Beeson

  • Tom Schanley

    Cavalry Office

  • Brian Jensen

    Lieutenant

  • Dale Wilson

    Renfro

  • Michael Elias

    Reporter

  • Crystal Verge

    Mrs. Tibbens

  • Donna Belleville

    Mrs. Clarksdale

  • Michelle Thrush

    Rainbow Woman

  • Edward C. K. Richardson III

    Charlie

  • Joshua Myers

    Rachel's Child

  • Hart Bochner

    Shelby Hornbeck

  • Jack Ackroyd

    Farmer Tully

  • Wilma Pelly

    Nita

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