Children of the Dust

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 1995-02-26

Last Air Date: 1995-02-28

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 2

Created By: David Greene

Networks: CBS

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Top Cast

Sidney Poitier as Gypsy Smith
Michael Moriarty as John Maxwell
Farrah Fawcett-Majors as Nora Maxwell
Katharine Isabelle as Young Rachel
Joanna Going as Rachel
Billy Wirth as Corby/White Wolf
Regina Taylor as Drusilla
Robert Guillaume as Mossburger
Jim Caviezel as Dexter
John Pyper-Ferguson as Sonny Boy

Seasons

Season 1 (1995)

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.