# Eve Ball

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{{Short description|American historian (1890-1984)}}
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| name               = Katherine Evelyn Daly Ball
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| birth_date         = {{birth date |1890|3|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [Clarksville, Tennessee](/source/Clarksville%2C_Tennessee), US
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| death_place        = [Ruidoso](/source/Ruidoso), New Mexico, US
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'''Eve Ball''' (14 March 1890 – 24 December 1984) was an American [historian](/source/historian) of the [American West](/source/American_West) and a teacher. She is best known for her oral research and books on [Apache](/source/Apache) Native American tribes, particularly ''Indeh: An Apache Odessey''. In 1981, she received the [Saddleman's Award](/source/Owen_Wister_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](/source/Kentucky).<ref name="women" /><ref name="men" /> She was born to Samuel Richard and Gazelle (Gibbs) Daly; Daly was the first woman doctor in [Kansas](/source/Kansas).<ref name="women">{{cite book |last1=Scanlon |first1=Jennifer |last2=Cosner |first2=Shaaron |title=American Women Historians, 1700s&ndash;1990s: A Biographical Dictionary |date=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=9781567509175 |page=11 |url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?resultListType=RELATED_DOCUMENT&userGroupName=byuprovo&inPS=true&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&isETOC=true&docId=GALE|accessdate=May 3, 2019}}</ref> Her family moved to a cattle ranch in Kansas when she was young.<ref name="men" />{{rp|12}} She began reading at the age of four, and by the age of twelve, was bored with traditional education. She began teaching in Kansas schools by the age of sixteen.<ref name="men" />{{rp|12}} Ball was known as a [tomboy](/source/tomboy) and even coached a junior high school boys basketball team.<ref name="men" />{{rp|12}} She earned her [Bachelor of Science](/source/Bachelor_of_Science) degree in education at [Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg](/source/Kansas_State_Teachers_College_of_Pittsburg) in 1918 and became a teacher. Ball graduated with a [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) in education from [Kansas State University](/source/Kansas_State_University) in 1934.<ref name="women" />

==Career==

During the [Dust Bowl](/source/Dust_Bowl), she taught English at a junior college in [Dodge City, Kansas](/source/Dodge_City%2C_Kansas).<ref name="men" />{{rp|13}} During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), she worked at oil refineries as a chemist in [Hobbs, New Mexico](/source/Hobbs%2C_New_Mexico).<ref name="men" />{{rp|13}} She was married to Joseph P. Ball, who was a captain of the [Kansas National Guard](/source/Kansas_Army_National_Guard), but he died in [World War I](/source/World_War_I).<ref name="meta" /> She purchased [Hermosa Inn](/source/Hermosa_Inn), then called ''La Casa Hermosa'' from artist Lon Megargee, operating a [dude ranch](/source/dude_ranch) there, but she later gave it up because it was too much work to maintain and it prevented her from having time to write.<ref name="men" />{{rp|15–18}}
Ball spent most of her career teaching, eventually settling in Ruidoso, New Mexico. She purchased property near Nob Hill in Ruidoso. To make a living, she ran an antique store from her home and constructed and leased apartments on her property. She wrote articles from the observations she made and stories she heard.<ref name="men" />{{rp|24}} In New Mexico, she became interested in Native Americans and the American West. She began researching them in the 1940s and interviewed southwestern pioneers and [Apache](/source/Apache)s at a time when there was no academic interest in those subjects or oral histories in general.<ref name="women" /><ref name="voices" />{{rp|xi–xii}}<ref name="meta" /> She had the opportunity to interview descendants and relatives of [Geronimo](/source/Geronimo), [Victorio](/source/Victorio), [Nana](/source/Nana_(chief)), and [Juh](/source/Juh).<ref name="meta" /> She used [shorthand](/source/shorthand) to take notes from the interviews to prevent intimidating interviewees with video and tape recording. She would read them back to her interviewees to correct errors or ask more questions.<ref name="men" />{{rp|34}} She is well known for seeking out and sharing the Apache point of view of encounters with colonizers.<ref name="west" /> In 1967, the Folklore Society of New Mexico presented a plaque to [J. Frank Dobie](/source/J._Frank_Dobie), [N. Howard Thorp](/source/N._Howard_Thorp), and Ball at Zimmerman Library at the [University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico).<ref name="men" />{{rp|69}} Ball was given an [honorary doctorate](/source/honorary_doctorate) by [College of Artesia](/source/College_of_Artesia) in 1972.<ref name="women" /> In 1972, she edited and created a book from a recovered manuscript by Lily Klasner.<ref name="men" />{{rp|29}} She published ''In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache'' in 1970 and ''Indeh: An Apache Odessy'' in 1980.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |title=In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache |publisher=The University of Arizona Press |location=Tucson, Arizona |isbn=9780816504015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lddyCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22eve+ball%22&pg=PR5 |accessdate=3 May 2019|date=2015 }}</ref><ref name="meta" /> Because of the strong relationship she gained with Apache member Daklugie (Geronimo's nephew and Juh's son), he gifted Ball his war club which he had hidden for 27 years as a [prisoner of war](/source/prisoner_of_war) and then recovered.<ref name="men" />{{rp|9}}

She received the [Golden Spur Award](/source/Golden_Spur_Award) from the [Western Writers of America](/source/Western_Writers_of_America) in 1975 for the best non-fiction short story ''Buried Money'', published in ''True West Magazine''.<ref name="men">{{cite book |last1=Sanchez |first1=Lynda A. |title=Eve Ball, Woman Among Men |date=2007 |publisher=Lincoln County Historical Society |location=Lincoln, New Mexico |isbn=978-0977261437}}</ref>{{rp|69}} She also won the [Saddleman’s Award](/source/Owen_Wister_Award), "the [Oscar](/source/Academy_Award) of western writing" in 1981 for ''Indeh, an Apache Odyssey'', a compilation of interviews with Apaches.<ref name="women" /><ref name="men" />{{rp|69}} Few women had received the Saddleman Award at that point in time and she considered receiving the award one of her proudest moments.<ref name="men" />{{rp|69}} The following year Ball was inducted into the [Cowgirl Hall of Fame](/source/Cowgirl_Hall_of_Fame).<ref name="women" /> Ball was a guest speaker in May 1978 for the World Business Council.<ref name="men" />{{rp|69}} On October 7, 1983, the [United States Senate](/source/United_States_Senate) passed resolution S.Res.230 to commend Eve Ball.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bingaman |first1=Jeff |title=Legislation Sponsored or Cosponsored by Jeff Bingaman |url=https://www.congress.gov/member/jesse-bingaman/B000468?q=%7B%22subject%22%3A%22Arts%2C+Culture%2C+Religion%22%7D |website=Congress.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=May 3, 2019}}</ref> Ball died in [Ruidoso](/source/Ruidoso), New Mexico, on 24 December 1984.<ref name="women" /> She continued to write up until her death, despite losing her eyesight.<ref name="meta" /> Ball wrote countless stories and book manuscripts that were never published.<ref name="meta" /> Ball's mentee Lynda A. Sanchez wrote and compiled a photo essay about Ball called, ''Eve Ball, Woman Among Men'' in 2007.<ref name="west" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Eve Ball, Woman Among Men, A. Photo Essay by Lynda A. Sanchez |url=http://www.thedolanhouse.com/eve-ball-woman-among-men-a-photo-essay-by-lynda-a-sanchez-signed-copy/ |website=The Dolan House |accessdate=3 May 2019}}</ref> In 2009, The New Mexico Women's Forum placed a marker honoring Eve Ball along highway 380, in [Lincoln County, New Mexico](/source/Lincoln_County%2C_New_Mexico) for "saving oral histories certain to be lost without her".<ref name="west">{{cite news |last1=Sanchez |first1=Lynda A. |title=The Apaches Spoke and Eve Ball Listened |url=https://truewestmagazine.com/the-apaches-spoke-and-eve-ball-listened/ |accessdate=3 May 2019 |work=True West Magazine |date=19 December 2009}}</ref> Eve Ball's papers reside at [Brigham Young University](/source/Brigham_Young_University).<ref name="voices">{{cite book |last1=Robinson |first1=Sherry |title=Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball |date=2000 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |isbn=9780826321633 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8VIryIK7dMC&dq=%22eve+ball%22&pg=PR11 |accessdate=3 May 2019}}</ref>{{rp|xi}}<ref name="meta">{{cite archival metadata |autho=Finding aid authors: Elizabeth Ballif and John M. Murphy |title=Eve Ball manuscripts and photographs |url=http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/2330 |repository=L. Tom Perry Special Collections |location=Provo, Utah |date=2011 |accessdate= 3 May 2016}}</ref>

==Works==
'''Books'''
*{{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |title=Ruidoso: The Last Frontier |date=1963 |publisher=Naylor, Co.}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |last2=Crosby |first2=Thelma |title=Bob Crosby: World Champion Cowboy |date=1966 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Clarendon, Texas}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |title=Ma'am Jones of the Pecos |date=1969 |publisher=The University of Arizona Press |location=Tucson, Arizona |isbn=978-0816504046 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7eGmprF2R2kC&dq=%22eve+ball%22&pg=PR11 |accessdate=3 May 2019}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |title=In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache |date=1970 |publisher=The University of Arizona Press |location=Tucson, Arizona |isbn=9780816504015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lddyCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22eve+ball%22&pg=PR5 |accessdate=3 May 2019}}
*{{cite book |last1=Klasner |first1=Lily |editor1-last=Ball |editor1-first=Eve |title=My Girlhood Among Outlaws |url=https://archive.org/details/mygirlhoodamongo00klas |url-access=registration |date=1972 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |location=Tucson, Arizona |isbn=9780816503544}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |last2=Henn |first2=Nora |last3=Sanchez |first3=Lynda A. |title=Indeh: An Apache Odyssey |date=1980 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman, Oklahoma |isbn=9780806121659 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh_vMuCuUc8C&dq=%22eve+ball%22&pg=PP2 |accessdate=3 May 2019}}

'''Journal articles'''
*{{cite journal |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |title=The Apache Scouts: A Chiricahua Appraisal |journal=Arizona and the West |date=Winter 1965 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=315–328 |jstor=40167138 }}

'''Short stories'''
*{{cite journal |last1=Ball |first1=Eve |title=Buried Money |journal=True West Magazine |date=1974}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/1570 Eve Ball papers], MSS 3096, [L. Tom Perry Special Collections](/source/L._Tom_Perry_Special_Collections), [Harold B. Lee Library](/source/Harold_B._Lee_Library), [Brigham Young University](/source/Brigham_Young_University)
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/2330 Eve Ball manuscripts and photographs], MSS 7740, [L. Tom Perry Special Collections](/source/L._Tom_Perry_Special_Collections)
*[https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/finding_aid/68/ Guide to MS117 Eve Ball Collection], [University of Texas at El Paso](/source/University_of_Texas_at_El_Paso)
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