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. ^ a b c d "Sonora Carver, 99; First Woman to Ride the Diving Horses in Atlantic City". Los Angeles Times. September 25, 2003.


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Girl_and_Five_Brave_Horses
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