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Webster answered an ad placed by William "Doc" Carver in 1923 [2] for a diving girl and soon earned a place in circus history. Her job was to mount a running horse as it reached the top of a 40-foot (12 m) - sometimes 60-foot (18 m) - tower and sail down on its back as it plunged into an 11-foot (3.4 m) pool of water directly below.
His horse fell/dived into the waters below, inspiring Carver to develop the diving horse act. Carver trained various animals and went on tour. His son, Al Floyd Carver, constructed the ramp and tower and Lorena Carver was the first rider. Sonora Webster joined the show in 1924. She later married Al Floyd Carver.
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 ...
William Frank Carver was born in Winslow, Illinois, to William Daniel Carver (1828–1888), a physician, and Deborah Tohapenes (Peters) Carver (1829–1907), who had migrated to Illinois from Pennsylvania in 1849. He had a younger brother, William Pitt, who became a farmer in Kansas, and a sister, May, who was born in May 1856 and died before ...
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is a 1991 American drama film directed by Steve Miner.It concerns Sonora Webster Carver, a rider of diving horses. Gabrielle Anwar stars as Carver alongside Michael Schoeffling and Cliff Robertson.
73 years old and gorgeous as ever -- but what else would you expect from Kathy Garver? Best known for her role as teenage Catherine "Cissy" Davis on the 1960s sitcom "Family Affair," it's been ...
A Girl and Five Brave Horses is a 1961 memoir by Sonora Webster Carver, a blind horse diver. If You Could See What I Hear is a 1975 book by blind musician Tom Sullivan, which was adapted into a 1982 movie.
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) – romantic drama film concerning Sonora Webster Carver, a rider of diving horses [153] Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) – drama television film focuses on James Brady, the press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was severely injured in an attempt on the president's life in 1981 [154]