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Year Inducted: 1981
Home State: CA
Mamie thrilled audiences with her dare-devil act of riding her horse off a 50-foot-high platform into a barrel of water just 10 feet across. Between 1908 and 1917, she performed this stunt 628 times. She also performed as a sharpshooter, before and after the years of her diving act. Learning to shoot when she was a child, Mamie did her rifle shooting from horseback, performing in vaudeville and the wild west shows.
