Who was Doc Carver?
Susan Mizla
Manchester, Connecticut
Born on May 7, 1840, William F. “Doc” Carver was a 19th-century world champion shooter and creator of the diving horse act. His early life is hard to pin down due to the contradictory tales he spun.
By the early 1870s, he had moved to the frontier and was practicing dentistry at various Nebraska forts. Ena Raymonde, whose brother, William, had a trapper’s camp known as Wolf’s Rest, is credited with teaching Carver how to s
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