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Children of the Dust

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.

1995 |1 Season  | 4h 0m |  Western, Drama

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Sidney Poitier

Gypsy Smith

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Michael Moriarty

John Maxwell

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Farrah Fawcett

Nora Maxwell

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Katharine Isabelle

Young Rachel

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Joanna Going

Rachel

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Billy Wirth

Corby/White Wolf

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Regina Taylor

Drusilla

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Robert Guillaume

Mossburger

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Jim Caviezel

Dexter

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John Pyper-Ferguson

Sonny Boy

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Grace Zabriskie

Rose

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Byron Chief-Moon

Chief Walks-The-Clouds

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Shirley Knight

Aunt Bertha

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Basil Wallace

Fulton

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Kevin McNulty

Sheriff Harriman

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Brent Stait

Ballenger

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Eric Keenleyside

Boss Beeson

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Tom Schanley

Cavalry Office

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Brian Jensen

Lieutenant

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Dale Wilson

Renfro

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Crystal Verge

Mrs. Tibbens

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Michelle Thrush

Rainbow Woman

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Hart Bochner

Shelby Hornbeck

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Creator

David Greene

Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

CBS