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.