Children of the Dust (1995)

7.1 February 26, 1995 ~240m / ep 1 Season Ended

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.

Cast

  • Sidney Poitier

    Sidney Poitier

    Gypsy Smith

  • Michael Moriarty

    Michael Moriarty

    John Maxwell

  • Farrah Fawcett

    Farrah Fawcett

    Nora Maxwell

  • Katharine Isabelle

    Katharine Isabelle

    Young Rachel

  • Joanna Going

    Joanna Going

    Rachel

  • Billy Wirth

    Billy Wirth

    Corby/White Wolf

  • Regina Taylor

    Regina Taylor

    Drusilla

  • Robert Guillaume

    Robert Guillaume

    Mossburger

  • Jim Caviezel

    Jim Caviezel

    Dexter

  • John Pyper-Ferguson

    John Pyper-Ferguson

    Sonny Boy

  • Grace Zabriskie

    Grace Zabriskie

    Rose

  • Byron Chief-Moon

    Byron Chief-Moon

    Chief Walks-The-Clouds

  • Shirley Knight

    Shirley Knight

    Aunt Bertha

  • Basil Wallace

    Basil Wallace

    Fulton

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