Eve Ball

Eve Ball (14 March 1890 – 24 December 1984) was an American historian of the American West and a teacher. She is best known for her oral research and books on Apache Native American tribes, particularly Indeh: An Apache Odessey. In 1981, she received the Saddleman's Award, "the Oscar of western writing" for Indeh: An Apache Odessey.

Early life and education Katherine Evelyn Daly Ball was born on 14 March 1890 in Kentucky. Her family moved to a cattle ranch in Kansas when she was young. She also won the Saddleman’s Award, "the Oscar of western writing" in 1981 for Indeh, an Apache Odyssey, a compilation of interviews with Apaches. Ball died in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on 24 December 1984. In 2009, The New Mexico Women's Forum placed a marker honoring Eve Ball along highway 380, in Lincoln County, New Mexico for "saving oral histories certain to be lost without her". Eve Ball's papers reside at Brigham Young University.

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