Reprint 1961 edition. p.224. Sonora Carver was an American
entertainer, most notable as one of the first female horse divers.
Carver answered an ad placed by "Doc" William Frank Carver in 1923
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 forty-foot
(sometimes sixty-foot) tower and sail down along the animal's back
as it plunged into a deep pool of water directly below. Sonora was
a sensation and soon became the lead diving girl for Doc Carver's
act as they traveled the country. In 1931, Sonora was blinded, a
retinal detachment, due to hitting the water off-balance with her
eyes open.while diving her horse, Red Lips, on New Jersey's Steel
Pier, the act's permanent home since 1929. After her accident
Sonora continued to dive horses until 1942.
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