A Girl and Five Brave Horses
First edition
AuthorSonora Webster Carver
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography
PublishedDoubleday
Media typePrint (Hardcover and paperback)
Pages224 pp (hardcover)
791.3/2 22
LC ClassGV1831.H8 C3 2009

A Girl and Five Brave Horses is a memoir by Sonora Webster Carver published in 1961.[1]

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

It inspired the Walt Disney Pictures film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sonora Carver, 99; First Woman to Ride the Diving Horses in Atlantic City". Los Angeles Times. September 25, 2003.


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