A Girl and Five Brave Horses
Memoir by Sonora Webster Carver
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A Girl and Five Brave Horses is a memoir by Sonora Webster Carver published in 1961.[1]
 First edition | |
| Author | Sonora Webster Carver |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Published | Doubleday |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (hardcover) |
| Dewey Decimal | 791.3/2 22 |
| 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
It inspired the Walt Disney Pictures film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.[1]
