Biography sonora webster carver
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“Though I cannot see my surroundings, the world is part of me. And I do not fear life or anything in it. On the contrary, I relish life and know that there is still much for me to do and know.”
– Sonora Webster Carver
Sonora Webster Carver’s Story
Sonora Webster was born on February 2, 1904, to a working-class family in Waycross, Georgia. She had a love for horses from a young age and would skip school to ride them. In 1923, at 19 years old, Webster’s mother showed her an advertisement in the newspaper seeking an “attractive young woman who can swim and dive; likes horses; desires to travel.” While she was resistant to the idea at first, after seeing the horse diving act, in which a horse and rider dove 40 feet from a tower into a pool of water, Webster was overcome with a desire to join the show. She reached out to William “Doc” Carver, the inventor of the horse diving act, and one of the founders of the Wild West Shows. Within months of witnessing the act for the first time, Webster had joined Doc Carver’s troupe.
Webster went through rigorous training to prepare for the horse diving act, as Doc Carver valued strength in his riders. She first learned how to ride bareback, and was eventually allowed to learn to dive, beginning
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A Girl and Five Brave Horses
Sonora was not a dumb and helpless teenager as the Disney movie wanted us to believe. Nor was she simply there at the right time to be hired as a diving girl, soon fall in love, and then go blind. She was actually already 19 years old when her mother begged her to watch the act, and after some haggling, she gave in and found a dream she didn’t know she had. This book is strictly about the horses, her experience diving across two decades, and the aftermath of losing her sight. There is very little insight into who her family was, her relationship with Al, or what she thought of the world outside of those horses. For me, that doesn’t matter because her story is unlike any I’ve ever read before. Every story she shared had a significance in its telling, rather than just for the sake of telling, and that I can appreciate.
This book was easy to read and uncomplicated (my favorite kind of book).
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Sonora Evelyn (Webster) Carver (1904 - 2003)
SonoraEvelyn(Nora)Carver formerly Webster
Daughter of Design Marion Pol and Lila Gertrude (Arnett) Webster
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Albert Floyd Carver — united Oct 1928 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
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