Olive Stokes Mix

Her mother was a Cherokee Nation citizen,[4] 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.

[4][5] As a young woman, Olive Stokes helped run her family's ranch and her mother's boarding house for oil workers.

[2] Mix's screen credits were mostly in Western short films, and included roles in Dad's Girls (1911), Told in Colorado (1911), Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor (1911), A Cowboy's Best Girl (1912), The Scapegoat (1912), The Diamond S Ranch (1912), Saved from the Vigilantes (1913), and The Single Code [it] (1917).

[10][11] Olive Stokes married western film star Tom Mix in 1909; she was his third wife (or second, by his count).

[4][16] Olive Stokes Mix died in 1972, aged 85 years, in Los Angeles.

Release flier for The Cowboy's Best Girl (1912), with Olive Mix in the cast
Release flier for The Scapegoat (1922), with Olive Mix in the cast