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A Girl and Five Brave Horses is a memoir by Sonora Webster Carver published in 1961.[1]
Author | Sonora Webster Carver |
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Language | English |
Genre | Autobiography |
Published | Doubleday |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and paperback) |
Pages | 224 pp (hardcover) |
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LC Class | GV1831.H8 C3 2009 |
At the age of 20, Sonora Webster Carver joined William Frank Carver's Wild West Show which featured diving horses and performed at Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Although Carver was blinded in a diving accident seven years later, she continued to dive afterward.[1] She wrote "A Girl and Five Brave Horses" documenting her life and her memories of diving horses.[1]
Legacy
editIt inspired the Walt Disney Pictures film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Sonora Carver, 99; First Woman to Ride the Diving Horses in Atlantic City". Los Angeles Times. September 25, 2003.