Children of the Dust( 1995)

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Overview

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.

David Greene
Creator

Series 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

Current Season

Season 1

1995 | 2 Episodes

Children of the Dust is an American Western television miniseries, based on Clancy Carlile's novel of the same name. Featuring an ensemble cast led by Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier, Children of the Dust was originally broadcast by CBS on February 26 and 28, 1995.