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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.
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 ...
[4] [18] Sonora remembered that Carver was a stern and taciturn man but loved his horses and insisted that they be given the best of care. Following Carver's death, the diving horse show continued with Al Carver at the helm. In October 1928 Al Carver and Sonora Webster were married.
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.
Upon the film's release, Sonora Webster Carver and her sister, Arnette French, watched it together. Sonora was dissatisfied with its embellishments and felt that it bore little resemblance to her life. [4] She told Arnette that "the only thing true in it was that I rode diving horses, I went blind, and I continued to ride for another 11 years."
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Sonora Webster Carver (born Sonora Webster), American horse diver; in Waycross, Georgia (d. 2003) [21] Valery Chkalov , Soviet test pilot ; in Vasilyevo , Russian Empire (d. 1938, plane crash) [ 22 ]
"The only people left from the original cast are Johnny Whitaker and me," Garver said. Producers decided to reunite Garver and Whitaker, not knowing that there was some bad blood between the two.