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The Jun/9/1908 Albuquerque Citizen (pg 4) has an ad for W.F. Carver's show. The ad includes a picture of a woman on a diving horse, with the caption "The Girl in Red". There is some text below the caption ballyhooing this act.
This article (the Sonora Webster Carver article) could be improved by mentioning the earlier act and linking to information about the history of the act. If I had a link to that I would provide it. But as yet I have not found info about the girl in red.
While, as the article currently states, Sonora Webster Carver may have been one of the first female horse divers, some other woman was performing the same act 15 years earlier.
This article says "In 1931, Sonora was blinded by retinal detachment, due to hitting the water off balance with her eyes open, while diving her horse, Red Lips" but the source cited[1] only says "It is clear that her sister's loss of sight from detached retinas was due to one bad blow or a number of blows" -- a medical conclusion made by a newspaper reporter, supposedly based upon an interview with Sonora's sister 66 years later, but suspiciously similar to what was depicted in a 1991 movie Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken that (according to her sister) Sonora said wasn't so truthful about the facts. If someone has access to Sonora's 1961 autobiography A Girl and Five Brave Horses we might find a better source. When Sonora died in 2003 the AP repeated the claim made in the 1007 NYT article.[2] --Guy Macon Alternate Account (talk) 06:22, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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