Oklahoma passage

Authors:Kenneth A. Meyer, Kevin Meyer, Jeanette Nolan, Whitman Mayo, Charles Benton, Jeff Mackay, Becky Borg, Dan Kamin, James Fields, Robert Knott, Rex Linn, Dale Robertson, G. D. Spradlin, Ben Johnson, Hoyt Axton, Thomas P. Stafford, Oklahoma Educational Television Authority

Summary:"The series focuses on the fictional Benton family, beginning with Abraham Benton, a mixed-blood Cherokee Indian. His pre-Trail of Tears immigration to Indian Territory in the mid-1830s begins a saga spanning six generations of Bentons. The family bears witness to more than 150 years of Oklahoma history, including Indian settlements during the Civil War, the Land Run of 89, statehood, the 1920s oil boom, the Dust Bowl and beyond. Each episode of Oklahoma Passage is woven together by Miz Hannah, the matriarch of the Benton family. Although the Bentons are fictional, the historical events and figures they encounter are factual. Miz Hannah is a remarkable woman who was once an aviatrix and barn-stormer and friend of both Wiley Post and Will Rogers"--OETA website