A Girl and Five Brave Horses

A Girl and Five Brave Horses

First edition
Author Sonora Webster Carver
Country United States
Language English
Genre Autobiography
Published Doubleday
Media type Print (Hardcover and paperback)
Pages 224 pp (hardcover)
791.3/2 22
LC Class GV1831.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]

See also

References

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