Olive Stokes Mix
Olive Stokes Mix was an American actress.
Early life
Olive M. Stokes was born in Indian Territory, the daughter of James Henry Stokes and Georgia Ann Russell, later known as Georgia Brown. Her parents ran a ranch near Dewey, Oklahoma. Her mother was a Cherokee Nation citizen, Olive Stokes was enrolled on the Dawes Rolls as 1/8th "Cherokee by blood", and her father is listed as an "intermarried white" whose enrollment was refused because his marriage took place prior to November 1, 1875. She graduated from Ward-Belmont College in 1907.Career
As a young woman, Olive Stokes helped run her family's ranch and her mother's boarding house for oil workers. Mix's screen credits were mostly in Western short films, and included roles in Dad's Girls, Told in Colorado, Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor, A Cowboy's Best Girl, The Scapegoat, The Diamond S Ranch, Saved from the Vigilantes, and .In her later years, Mix wrote The Fabulous Tom Mix, a biography of her late ex-husband. and invested in oil wells and mines, including a uranium mine in Utah. In 1962 she was interviewed in the CBC Radio program The Unreal West.