A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
February 26, 1995
# of Seasons: 1
# of Episodes: 2
Finale:
February 28, 1995
Creators:
David Greene
Original Title:
Children of the Dust
Alternate Titles:
A Good Day to Die
Genres:
Drama | Western
Production Companies:
The Königsberg Company
Vidmark Entertainment
Countries:
US
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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Casting:
Donna Ekholdt
Susan Bluestein
Director:
David Greene
Director of Photography:
Ron Orieux
Editor:
Tod Feuerman
Executive Producer:
Frank Konigsberg
Joyce Eliason
Novel:
Clancy Carlile
Original Music Composer:
Mark Snow
Producer:
Harold Lee Tichenor
Production Design:
Trevor Williams
Teleplay:
Joyce Eliason
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