Spiderwalk: The High Life and Daring Stunts of a Small-Town Girl from Arkansas

Ann Miles walked out of her home in Malvern, Arkansas, as a teenager in the 1950s and into a daring and dangerous job at the famous Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She later expanded her repertoire to include hair-raising stunts for movies, modeling work, acting jobs for television, and work in Broadway shows. Using her experience as a teenage rodeo rider and gymnast, Miles landed a job as the star of the renowned Diving Horse Act at the Steel Pier, riding a horse off a platform fo...