Eve Ball

Eve Ball (14 March 1890 – 24 December 1984), was an American historian of the American West and a teacher.

Life and work

Katherine Evelyn Daly Ball was born on 14 March 1890 in Clarksville, Tennessee; her mother was the first female doctor in Kansas. She earned a B.S. degree in education from Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg in 1918 and became a teacher. Ball received a M.A. in education from Kansas State University in 1934 and became interested in Native Americans and the American West. She began researching them around 1950 and interviewed southwestern pioneers and Apaches at a time when there was no academic interest in those subjects. Ball was given an honorary doctorate by College of Artesia in 1972. She received the Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America in 1975 for the best non-fiction short story and the Saddleman’s Award in 1981 for Indeh, an Apache Odyssey, a compilation of interviews with Apaches. The following year Ball was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She died at home in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on 24 December 1984.^[1]

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References

• Scanlon, Jennifer & Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29664-2.