Dorothy Herbert: Riding Sensation of the Age: A Memoir

Dorothy Herbert: Riding Sensation of the Age: A Memoir by Hilda Nelson. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780977162109.

Dorothy Herbert - the most renowned circus and Wild West equestrienne of the twentieth century. Her career spanned nearly fifty years, from 1925 - when she started with a mule and cart act with Gollmar Bros. Circus - to the vary heights of center-ring fame - to 1974, when she sold the dog act shed been presenting in the shade of her career and took her final bow. In her day, Ringling billed Miss Herbert as the worlds most daring rider. Her face graced circus lithographs and programs, including the 1934 cover of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey program. Unparalleled as a trick rider, her wide popularity took her from Camel cigarette ads to the Wheaties box, from Texas Rangerette to honorary Oklahoma Ranger.