BOOKS AND SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
Ades, Harry. The Little Book of the Civil War. London: Barnes & Noble Books, 2002.
Barber, James. Presidents. New York: DK Eyewitness Books in association with the Smithsonian Institution, First American Edition, 2000.
Bennett, Mark. The History of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. St. Louis: 1905.
Caroli, Betty Boyd. The Roosevelt Women. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Carson, Gerald. Men, Beasts, and Gods: A History of Cruelty and Kindness to Animals. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972.
Charlish, Anne. A World of Horses: Evolution, History, Breeds, Sports, and Leisure. Munich: Naturalis, 1981.
Conley, Kevin. Stud: Adventures in Breeding. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Conn, George, ed. The Arabian Horse in Fact, Fantasy and Fiction. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1959. Essays cited: “The Horse Fair,” by James Baldwin, 1899; “Bedouins of the Euphrates,” by Lady Anne Blunt, 1879; “A Pilgrimage to Nejd,” by Lady Anne Blunt, 1881; “The Horse of the Sahara,” by E. Daumus, 1863.
Courtenay-Thompson, Fiona, and Kate Phelps, general eds. The 20th Century Year by Year. London: Barnes & Noble Books, a Marshall Edition, 1998.
Daniel, Clifton, editorial director. Kirshon, John W., editor in chief. Chronicle of America. Paris: Jacques Legrand; Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Chronicle Publications, 1988.
Francis, David R. The Universal Exposition of 1904. St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Purchase Exposition Company, 1904, 1913.
Garner, Robert, ed. Animal Rights: The Changing Debate. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Goodall, Jane, and Marc Bekoff. The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love. San Francisco: HarperSan-Francisco, 2002.
Hagedorn, Hermann. The Roosevelt Family of Saginaw Hill. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.
Hughes, Langston, and Milton Meltzer. Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
Jacobs, Lucile Frizzell. “The Tennessee Walking Horse.” Chapter 13 in “Duck River Valley in Tennessee and Its Pioneers,” 1968.
Justi, Herman, ed. Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Publication committee: Dr. W. L. Dudley and G. H. Baskette. Nashville, Tenn.: 1898.
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.
Lawrence, Bobby. Tennessee Centennial Nashville 1897. From the series Images of America. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
Lee, Essie Mott. Dr. William Key: The Man Who Educated a Horse. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books, 1998, 2002.
Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Magner, David. Magner’s Art of Taming and Educating Horses. Battle Creek, Mich.: Review and Herald Publishing House, 1884.
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, and Susan McCarthy. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Delta, 1995.
McNamara, Brooks. Step Right Up: History of the Medicine Show. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.
Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
Mooney, Chase C. Slavery in Tennessee. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1957.
Morais, Herbert M. History of the Afro-American in Medicine. International Library of Afro-American Life and History. Cornwells Heights, Pa.: The Publishers Agency, Inc., 1978.
Oppedisano, Jeannette M. Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to the Present. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Patterson, Lindsay, ed. Anthology of the Afro-American in the Theatre: A Critical Approach. International Library of Afro-American Life and History. Cornwells Heights, Pa.: The Publishers Agency, Inc., 1978.
Roberts, Monty. The Man Who Listens to Horses: The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer. New York: Random House, 1997, 1998.
Robertson, William H. P. The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Bonanza Books, 1964.
Rogers, Albert. “Information Regarding Jim Key.” Various drafts, 1913–1945, unpublished article/manuscript.
Sacks, Howard L., and Judith Rose Sacks. Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family’s Claim to the Confederate Anthem. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Senour, Caro. Master St. Elmo: The Autobiography of a Celebrated Dog. Chicago, Ill.: The Juvenile Book Company, 1904.
Sherman, Joe. A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville’s Union Station. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.
Sights, Scenes and Wonders at the World’s Fair. St. Louis, Mo., 1904.
Slout, William Lawrence. Theatre in a Tent: The Development of a Provincial Entertainment. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.
Spiegel, Marjorie, with a foreword by Alice Walker. The Dreaded Comparison: Human & Animal Slavery. New York: Mirror Books/I.D.E.A., 1988, 1989.
Thuss, W. G., and A. J. Thuss. An Art Album of the Tennessee Centennial International Exposition, May 1 to October 31, 1897. Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall & Bruce Co. Publishers, 1898.
Ward, Geoffrey C., with an introduction by Ric Burns and Ken Burns. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Womack, Bob. Call Forth the Mighty Men. Bessemer, Ala.: Colonial Press, 1987.
———. The Echo of Hoof Beats: History of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Shelbyville, Tenn.: DABORA, Inc., 1994.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present. New York: HarperCollins, 1980, 1995, 1998, 1999.
PAMPHLETS AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
Albert R. Rogers, “He Was Taught by Kindness” aka “Beautiful Jim Key: How He Was Educated.” Rogers Publications, editions 1899, 1901, 1904, 1906.
Los Angeles Public Library exhibit brochure for “The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863” on view Dec. 5–8, 2003.
Tennessee Centennial Exposition postcards, posters 1897.
“The Parthenon: A Museum Guide.”
Historical Edition Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 1819–1969: “Physicians, Attorneys, Teachers of 1850”; “Historic Streets”; “Study of Early Politics Explains Secession Vote”; “Erwin Home Was General Hardee’s Headquarters”; “Bedford Countians Took Up Arms—for Both North and South”; “Units in Which Bedford Countians Fought”; “Federal Soldier Saw Much Union Sentiment”; “HomeGuards Established During 1863”; “Shelbyville Rebels”; “Military Control of Shelbyville Changed Often During 1861–62”; “Andrews Made Plans to Steal ‘The General’ at Shelbyville”; “Anti-Secessionist ‘Parson’ Brownlow Detained Here by Rebel Soldiers”; “Bushwhacker Terrorized City”; “Bragg Set Up Defense at Shelbyville after Retreating from Murfreesboro”; “Rosecrans Outflanked Bragg at Battle of Hoover’s Gap”; “English Soldier Visited Bragg’s Army”; “Spy Pauline Cushman”; “Skirmish at Shelbyville, as Seen by a Soldier”; “Summary of Civil War Action in Bedford County”; “Loyalty of 80-Yr.-Old Shelbyville Woman Impressed Federals”; “S. E. Tillman Gives Insight into Civil War–Torn Bedford County”; “Forrest Escort Assembled in Shelbyville”; “Impressions of Shelbyville by a Rebel Soldier”; “Nathan Bedford Forrest: Legendary Civil War Cavalry Officer”; “Union Underground Railroad Operated in Bedford County”; “Wheeler Took Revenge in Raid on Shelbyville”; “Bedford Countians in the Civil War”; “Smalling Memoirs: Unusual Experiences Encountered by Local Confederate Officer”; “Social and Political Unrest Reflected Change During Reconstruction Period”; “Bedford County Fair Was ‘Biggest’ Event of Year”; “Support for Woman Suffrage Gained at 1920 Hotel Dixie Meeting”; “From Patent Medicines to Prescriptions”; “History of Negro Education in Bedford County”; “‘Old Sawney’ Established Nationally Known Webb Preparatory School in Bell Buckle”; “Walking Horse National Celebration: Idea That Was Successful”; “Heritage of Tennessee Walking Horse”; “Activities of Thespian Club…in 1888”; “Industrial Development”; “Former Slave Became Prosperous Businessman”; “Many Theories Given about Origin of Bell Buckle’s Name.”
Information-impressions of Shelbyville and Bedford County, Shelbyville Times-Gazette, spring 1988: “Bedford Votes Democratic for Governor”; “Local Theatre Was First Opera House”; “Shelbyville Depot Recommended to National Register for Historic Places”; “National Registry” (Bedford County landmarks); “Early Bedford County Communities and Their Histories”; “Bell Buckle Strives to Retain 1800s Charm”; “Shelbyville and Bedford Co. Have Close Ties to Three Members of Congress and Both Senators”; “Bedford County Can Claim Two United States Senators”; “Famous Bedford Countians”; “Summary of Some Events in Bedford Co. and Shelbyville, Tennessee, History.”
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS (BY DATE)
“Keystone Driving Park,” Shelbyville Gazette, 6/23/1887.
Coverage of President McKinley at Tennessee Centennial, Nashville Sun, Sunday, 6/13/1897. “Beautiful Jim Key,” New York Herald, 8/15/1897.
“Beautiful Jim Key,” New York Sun, 8/15/1897.
“General Sporting News,” Brooklyn Eagle, 8/18/1897.
Centennial coverage, Nashville Daily Sun, 8/18/1897, 8/23/1897, 8/24–26/1897.
“At the Waverly Fair,” Newark Evening News, 9/9/1897.
Newark Daily Advertiser, 9/8/1897.
“Beautiful Jim Key, the Educated Horse and His Wonderful Feats,” Orange Journal, 9/18/1897.
“Beautiful ‘Jim Key,’” Orange Chronicle, 9/18/1897.
“A Pet Horse That Writes, Thinks, and Spells,” New York World, 9/26/1897.
“A Horse That Can Count, Read, and Write,” York Press, 9/26/1897.
“Beautiful Jim Key at the Inter-state Fair,” Trenton Sunday Advertiser, 9/26/1897.
“Grand Expo Feature,” Pittsburg Evening Record, 10/1897.
“The Wonderful Horse to Be Seen Exposition,” Pittsburg Daily News, 10/1897.
“A Wonderful Horse” (Pittsburg), 10/4/1897.
“Unfere Musfteflung,” Pittsburger Beobadjter, 10/4/1897.
Cincinnati clippings, “Little Ones: From House of Refuge and Children’s Home,” “Odeon, Beautiful Jim Key,” “Auditorium, Beautiful Jim Key,” fall 1897.
“A Wonderful Horse,” Mail and Express, 10/25/1897.
“Jim Key a Clever Horse,” New York Times, 12/1/1897.
“Beautiful Jim Key, The Scholar and a Model Office Boy,” Trenton Sunday Advertiser, 2/13/1898.
“Jim Key a Great Actor,” Plainfield Courier News, 2/26/1898.
“Jim Key Is a Scholarly Horse,” Plainfield Courier News, 2/1898.
Daily clippings, “Amusement Notes,” Plainfield Feb./March 1898.
“A Horse That Almost Talks,” Plainfield Courier News, 3/8/1898.
“Entertained by the Scholarly Horse” (Plainfield), 3/8/1898.
“The King of All Horses, Beautiful Jim Key” (York, Pa.), 10/4/1898.
“Jim Makes His Bow,” Evening Telegram, 11/8/1898.
“Beautiful Jim Key: First Performance of This Wonderful Horse Last Night,” Greensboro Record, 11/8/1898.
“This Horse Will Teach People How to Spell,” Atlanta Journal, 12/1898.
“Beautiful Jim Key to Come,” Atlanta Constitution, 12/4/1898.
“Jim Key Performs Today,” Atlanta Constitution, 12/9/1898.
“Jim Key’s Exhibition,” Atlanta Constitution, 12/10/1898.
“Jim Key’s Power of Reasoning,” Atlanta, 12/1898.
“Jim Key Performs Today,” Atlanta, 12/1898.
“Wonderful Jim Key, the Educated Horse Being Exhibited by the Humane Society,” Atlanta Constitution, 12/19/1898.
“A Tribute to Jim Key,” “Jim Key the Fashion,” Atlanta Constitution, 12/23/1898.
“Jim Key Leaves Tonight,” Atlanta Constitution, 12/31/1898.
“Object Lesson to Humanity,” Nashville American, 2/11/1899.
“Chesterfield Among Horses,” Nashville American, 2/12/1899.
“Jim Key the Famous Horse,” Nashville Banner, 2/18/1899.
“Beautiful Jim Key,” The Children’s Visitor, vol. 33, no. 3, March 1899.
“Dr. William Key, Most Successful Horse Trainer in the World,” New Orleans Item, 1899.
“Horse Still King at the State Fair,” “Jim Key to Be Awarded Blue Ribbon,” “Pronounced Cleverest Horse in the World,” New Orleans, August 1899.
“Exposition Notes,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/8/1899.
“Beautiful Jim Key,” Temple Review, 11/1899.
“Humane Society Endorses the Press Animal Ambulance Fund,” Pittsburg Press, 10/24/1900.
“Pittsburg Heartily Praises Fund,” Pittsburg Press, 10/25/1900.
“Need of Animal Ambulance Recognized,” Pittsburg Press, 10/26/1900.
“No City Needs Ambulance More,” Pittsburg, 10/1900.
“More Money Than Was Originally Asked For,” Pittsburg, 10/1900.
Various Boston Food Fair ads, Boston Globe, 10/6–27/1901.
Boston Food Fair, Boston Evening Transcript, 10/19/1901.
Blurb on examination of Jim by Harvard professors, Boston Globe, 10/27/1901.
“Beautiful Jim Key: Horse That Reads, Writes, and Changes Money,” Boston Globe, 11/1901.
“Last Chance to See Beautiful Jim Key,” Boston Traveler, 11/1/1901.
“A Letter from Jim Key,” Our Dumb Animals, vol. 34, no. 7, 12/1901.
“Jim Is Highly Educated—Can Both Spell and Figure,” Post-Standard, 9/7/1902.
“Last Day of Mechanics Fair,” Boston Traveler, 10/30/1902.
“Dr. Key and His Horse,” Guardian, 11/1902.
“Beautiful Jim Key,” South Carolina Interstate & West Indian Exposition Midway Edition, A. R. Rogers, ed., 12/28/1902.
“Beautiful Jim Key,” Boston Hampton Union, 1903.
“Will Astonish the City,” Charleston, 1902.
“Read by Ten Million People.” Extract from an illustrated article that was sent out by the American Press Association; 1903 AP story (reprinted in Rogers promo materials).
“Horse, Trained by Kindness, Does Everything But Talk,” St. Louis Republic, 4/29/1904.
Entire newspaper, precoverage of world’s fair opening, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4/30/1904.
Entire newspaper, coverage of world’s fair opening, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/1/1904.
“Popular Prices the Rule on Pike,” St. Louis, summer 1904.
“Jim Key’s Mascot Was Once a Common Stray Dog” (clipping).
“Beautiful Jim Key a Wonderful Horse,” Chicago Daily Journal, 5/27/1905.
“Wonderful Jim Key Has Arrived,” Columbus Evening Dispatch, 3/6/1906.
“‘Jim Key’ Here Tonight,” Ohio State Journal, 3/6/1906.
“Horse Is Winner in Spelling Bee,” Columbus Citizen, 3/7/1906.
“‘Jim Key’ Makes Good Impression,” Columbus Evening Dispatch, 3/7/1906.
“Jim Key Proves Equine Wisdom,” Ohio State Journal, 3/7/1906.
“Wonderful Deaf, Dumb and Blind Boy Writes about ‘Jim Key,’” Columbus Evening Dispatch, 3/8/1906.
“Captured the City, He Broke All Records,” St. Joseph Star Special Jim Key Edition, 3/23/1906.
“The Horse and the Boy,” Omaha World-Herald, 3/26/1906.
“Wisest Horse in the World Is Here,” Minneapolis Journal, 3/30/1906; editorial cartoon, “The School Board Has Been.”
“Jim Key Delights First Night Crowd” (Cleveland), 4/4/1906.
“Jim Key Does Sums for 8000 People,” Minneapolis Journal, 4/4/1906.
“Is It Wrong to Slaughter Flies?” Cleveland News, 5/2/1906.
“Soldier of Peace: George T. Angell 1823–1909,” Boston Traveler, 3/20/1909.
“A Negro on the ‘Problem,’” “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Library,” Chattanooga Times, 6/29/1909.
Death notice, Shelbyville Gazette, 10/21/1909, “Dr. William Key, colored, died at his home last night” (d.o.d. 10/18/1909).
Clippings, obituaries, Dr. William Key, Shelbyville Gazette, 10/1909.
Boston clippings on Angell Memorial Fund, “Children May Give Pennies,” various sources, 1909.
“Jim Key Dies,” Shelbyville Gazette, 2/2/1911 (incorrectly reported).
Carl Krall and Wilhelm Neumann, “Tell of Mind Link to Horses and Dogs,” New York Times, 10/1/1927.
“Gets Tercentenary Post: Albert R. Rogers to Direct Celebration Planned by Connecticut,” New York Times, 1/26/1935.
“Beautiful Jim Key, the Educated Horse, Was the Sensation of His Day,” Shelbyville Gazette, 9/4/1946 (from collection of W. J. McGill).
O. C. Walker, “Jim Key Foaled, Trained in Bedford, Shattered Theories of ‘Dumb Animals,’” Shelbyville-Times Gazette, 3/21/1958.
“‘Jim Key’ Foaled, Trained in Bedford, Shattered Theories of ‘Dumb Animals,’” New York World 3/21/1958.
Charles Whited, “Shelbyville’s Wonder Horse,” Nashville Tennessean, 3/23/1958.
Phil Coop, “Jim Key’s Memory,” Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 9/4/1969.
“Jim Key Wonder Horse,” 31st Annual Walking Horse National Celebration Souvenir Edition, 9/4/1969.
“Story of Jim Key Lives On,” 32nd Annual Walking Horse National Celebration Souvenir Edition, 9/1/1970.
“Memorial to Jim Key,” Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 10/6/1970.
Dr. Bob Womack, “Jim Key…A Remarkable Horse,” Walking Horse Report, 3/12/1979.
Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Amy Wallace, “The Amazing Calculating Horse,” Parade, 6/13/1982.
Dick Poplin, “Scraps of Poplin: Bedford County’s Hall of Fame” (Dr. Stanley White Davis remembered), Shelbyville Times-Gazette.
Dick Poplin, “The Civil War in Bedford County.”
Chris Shofner, “The Smartest Horse in America,” Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 8/27/1985.
Kay Rose, “Trunk Yields Unexpected Treasures,” Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 2/23/2000.
Monica Whitaker, “How Kindness Made Freed Slave Famous,” Tennessean, 2/21/1999.
Dick Poplin, “Of Cabbages and Kings,” Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 7/17/2002.
Clara Singleton Nelson, “My Civil War Connection,” Shelbyville Times-Gazette, 2/17/2003.
The Bell Buckle Echo: History Echoes in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, vol. 11, issue 10, October 2002; vol. 11, issue 12, December 2002; vol. 12, issue 3, March 2003.
FILM, VIDEO, AND MUSIC
The Civil War, a film by Ken Burns (episodes 1–9) PBS Gold DVD, dist. by Warner Home Video.
The Hoffman Collection: Films by David Hoffman, including Moonshot (4-part series, Turner Broadcasting, Peabody Award); Riding for America (PBS Gold Cine—America’s equestrians head for Olympics); Barnum’s Big Top (The American Experience; the unique story of P. T. Barnum); Sins of Our Mothers (The American Experience; incest rumors turn to truth and truth turns to legend in Maine); Ballad of a Mountain Man (The American Experience; one man’s quest to unearth the roots of “mountain music”).
Horses: The Story of Equus, IMAX Films.
Jack Raymond compilation of early minstrel records, including “My Kickapoo Queen,” “Cakewalk in Coontown,” “When You Ain’t Got No Money,” “All I Want Is My Black Baby.”
Bob Scruggs CD, “Bell Buckle Bob Plays Old Time Gospel Favorites,” Texhoma Music Group.
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives; an HBO documentary film in association with the Library of Congress.
INTERNET RESOURCES AND WEB SITES
http//www.dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam (5/18/1895 Cleveland Gazette article on treatment of blacks at Atlanta’s Cotton Exposition)
http://www.165.138.44.13/civilwar/63mb.htm (Allen W. Prather, Civil War Sixth Regiment)
http://americancivilwar.com
http://www.animallaw.info/historical/articles (Annual Reports of ASPCA 1889–1904)
Animal Legal & Historical Center, Michigan University College of Law; Clara Morris, “Riddle of the Nineteenth Century: Mr. Henry Bergh,” 1902
http://www.bellbuckletn.org/history.shtml
http://www.bellemeadeplantation.com
http://www.blackvoices.com (black equestrians, black jockeys)
http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Studbook/EarlyM.htm
http://www.boondocksnet.com (world’s fairs pages edited by Jim Zwick)
http://chronofhorse.com (Chronicle of Horses)
http://www.clickertraining.com (horse intelligence and clicker training)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/undergound/opugrr.htm
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/saunders/joe/joe-XIX.htm (A Celebration of Women Writers/women’s reading circles, Bands of Mercy)
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/ (source of 5/18/ 1895 Cleveland Gazette)
earlyamericanhorses@yahoogroups.com (posting about early pacers and trotters)
http://www.guidehorse.org (miniature guide horses for the blind)
http://www.hall.racingmuseum.org/horse
http://www.harnessmuseum.com/harness11.htm (Hambletonian, Goshen, New York, as Cradle of the Trotter)
http://www.imh.org (International Museum of the Horse)
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
http://www.jsfmusic.com/Uncle_Tom/Tom_Article6.html (The Minstrel Show’s Contribution to Folk Music)
http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/subjectresources/special collections/worldfairs
http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/class (The Lost Museum Classroom: letters between P. T. Barnum and Henry Bergh of the ASPCA)
http://www.luckymojo.com (rabbit’s feet and hoodoo)
http://www.mihumane.org (Michigan Humane Society)
http://mspca.techevolution.com/About+MSPCA-Angell/ history/107.aspx (The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Historical Time Line; biography and legacy of George T. Angell)
http://www.mtsu.edu/-library/wtn/wtn-afam.html (African-American women in Tennessee history, Ida B. Wells)
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/coasterlist.htm (background on rides promoted by Rogers, Shoot the Chutes, Loop-the-Loop, etc.)
http://nyhistory.com/central/loguen.htm (Jermain Wesley Loguen)
http://www.oakridger.com/stories (“Tennessee horse population third in country” by Joe Edwards, 2/21/2000)
http://parascope.com/articles/slips/taphorse.htm (“Clever Hans” by D. Trull)
http://www.politicalgraveyard.com (miscellaneous biographies of individuals in military and elected office)
http://www.ryman.com
http://www.state.tn.us/environment/hist/PathDivided.htm
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung.n.html (Union generals, James Scott Negley, command div. XIV Corps at Stone’s River)
http://tbheritage.com (Bonnie Scotland at Belle Meade, Luke Blackburn)
http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/barnum001.html (P. T. Barnum)
http://www.thoemmes.com/psych/pfungst.htm (Thoemmes Continuum: Classics in Psychology, Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College—Oskar Pfungst: Clever Hans)
http://www.undergroundrailroad.org
http://www.vetcentric.com (article 9/5/2000, “Exploring the Equine Mind: Researchers Study Cognitive Abilities of Horses” by Wes Alwan, on Evelyn Hanggi, Ph.D., founder of Equine Research Foundation in Santa Cruz)
http://www.yesterland.com/progress.html (Carousel of Progress, Walt Disney)
COLLECTIONS
David Hoffman Collection:
1. Original newspapers/photography; four editions of A. R. Rogers’s “Beautiful Jim Key: How He Was Taught”
2. Jim Key postcards, souvenir buttons, pins, coins
3. Program Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Inaugural Event (September 7–9, 1939)
4. Shelbyville Times-Gazette historical editions, 1969, 1988
5. Horse Sense flyer, endorsement brochure of Amberg Imperial Cabinet Letter File
The Johnson Collection: Dr. William Key/Jim Key steamer trunks:
1. souvenirs as buttons, postcards, photos, statues, and pamphlets
2. Jim Key chalkboard
3. original newspapers kept by Dr. Key
4. tintypes for photographs, promo materials
5. ledger for Keystone Liniment sales and county fair directorships
6. template for Keystone Liniment bottle label
7. college diploma, Maggie Davis Key
8. personal correspondence Dr. Key and Lucinda Davis Key, M.D.
9. tickets and stubs (thousands)
Annie Mott Whitman Collection of Jim Key Materials, Manuscripts Section, Tennessee State Library and Archives.
1. Patent medicine materials, flyer for Dr. W. C. Fair; “Bell’s Handbook of Veterinary Homeopathy,” 1885 edition
2. Letter from George Angell to Wm. Key, 11/1/1901, presentation of gold medal from AHES, MSPCA, Parent American Band of Mercy
3. Letter from Wm. Key to A. R. Rogers, 11/18/1905
4. Address of Booker T. Washington to National Educational Association, St. Louis, Mo., Thursday, June 30, 1904
5. Mayor Richard Dudley, handwritten notes describing Wm. Key payoff of mortgage on farm of John and Martha Key
6. Jim Key schoolhouse bell
7. Beautiful Jim Key equine honorary membership documents: American Humane Association/MSPCA, Bands of Mercy of the World, Pen and Pencil Club
8. Dr. William Key honorary membership documents and gold medal document for Band of Mercy Service to Humanity Award (bestowed 11/1/1901)
9. 1905 Robinson-McGill Mfg. Co. logo “Jim Key Brand” (order forms)
10. Jim Key Band of Mercy organizing forms (National Organizer Miss Agnetta Floris)
11. Personal reading/general clippings: “Securing Homes for Homeless Children Number,” WCTU Tidings, Charlotte, N.C.; April 1903; subjects of African-American interest, root medicine, horses, women’s suffrage; 1909 ad for Falkenfels No. 1899, German Coach Horse in stud service in Shelbyville c/o J. C. Jackson; flyer on land for sale in Chattanooga, 1890
12. Personal notes: various financial lists of costs; 1900/1901 handwritten notes on plans for Philadelphia, Washington, Pan American exhibit, carved trunk
13. Letter from Archie Rogers to Essie Mott Lee, 10/10/72
Annie Mott Whitman Collection of Jim Key Materials, Manuscripts Section, to Tennessee State Library and Archives. Albert R. Rogers scrapbooks, correspondence, souvenirs, promotional materials.
1. Marketing letters: from B. F. Keith’s Amusement Ent., 8/19/1897; from American Institute Fair, fall 1897; from Allen Williams, Chief, Press Bureau Madison Square Garden, 9/13/1897; to Secretary, Danbury Fair, 9/17/1897; to Mr. Fitzpatrick from Rogers in Minn., 4/4/1906, on season; West Pennsylvania Exposition Society, 10/9/1897; Merchants Fall Festival, Springfield, Mo., 9/12/1906; letter of introduction for Rogers from J. Heekin, Heekin Coffee of Cincinnati, 10/13/1897; to T. J. Fitzpatrick, Pittsburg Exposition, pricing and misplaced props; letter of introduction for Rogers from HDC of the World, 11/21/1903.
2. Humane groups letters: to George Angell, 11/8/1897; John Haines of American Humane Society, 11/19/1897; to Frank Connelly, 11/23/1897; from National Humane Society Officers, 2/1899, on change of date due to cold weather; 1901 Angell to School Supt. Boston about closing schools; AHES/ MSPCA, Secretary Stevens, 2/18/1905, for Angell; from New York State Convention of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals, 1/27/1905; from American Humane Ass., 10/26/1905, commending his help; from American Humane Ass., 11/1/1905; from Minn. student organizer to Uncle Bert, 11/22/1906; from Missouri Humane Society, 9/1906; from Rogers to Angell on ideas for network of groups, 1906; from Rogers to Angell, 2/13/1906, on April Mercy Day ideas; from Angell to Rogers, 11/10/1906, on letter from San Antonio; from National Humane Alliance, 1/22/1907; Angell to Rogers, 1/31/1907, on opening New York office; Rogers to Angell on funding outreach for Bands of Mercy, 2/7/1907; from ASPCA secretary to Rogers, 2/19/1907; Rogers to Angell on fund-raising, 11/6/1907; Mr. Richardson of MSPCA/AHES to Rogers on election of valuable service, 11/20/1907; Rogers to Angell on need to unite societies, 1/6/1908; Rogers to Angell, 3/24/1908, on show at Hippodrome; Richardson to Rogers, 4/1/1908, on commendation of contribution; Rogers to Angell on lack of cooperation from Richardson, 4/1908; Rogers to Boston School Committee on Angell Memorial Fund, 3/29/1909; from secretary of Boston School Committee, 4/8/1909, circular about raising money for memorial approved
3. Letter from National Cash Register Co. (Dayton, Ohio), 1906, to J. Hazuka, Omaha, Nebraska; ads with Metropolitan Cash Register
4. Personal letters: Ida Sheehan to Rogers, 5/23/1896; formal dinner invitation from Senator Palmer, Detroit, 1905; E. S. Porter, Windsor Farms, Richmond, Va., on a “wonderful little mare,” 8/12/1927; letter to Mrs. Colby from Rogers, Boston, 1/13/1909
5. Letter from Albert to “Louise,” Raleigh, N.C., 10/25/1898
6. Letter from Wm. Key to A. R. Rogers, 5/3/1898, Atlantic City; from Key to Rogers noting dimensions of racks, Shelbyville; from Wm. Key to A. R. Rogers, 3/12/1900, on terms, Jim’s condition; from Wm. Key to A. R. Rogers, 11/18/1905, on financial misunderstanding; from Wm. Key to Rogers, 12/9/1907, on Jim’s health, interest in travel
7. Letter from St. Louis World’s Fair to Rogers over legal settlement, 11/21/1904
8. Correspondence with Dr. Stanley White Davis; Davis to Rogers, 2/13/1913 and 3/10/1913, reporting Jim’s death September 18, 1912
9. Letter of complaint from Rogers to American Humane Educational Society board of directors, including correspondence, 4/13/1909; note on National Jim Key Band of Mercy 1906 (700,000 members), on financial losses, 1/17/07; and letter, 1/19/1907 (posted to 1,000,000 members), on illness of Miss Floris; 2/9/1907 report on need for funds for Bands of
Mercy 10. Flyers, programs: Orange Riding and Driving Club, 9/21–22/1897; program for The Scholar and a Model Office Boy, 10/18/1897; program for the Star Theatre Broadway bill, 12/1897; Scenic Theatre, Atlantic City; Pittsburg Exposition Sousa bill with Jim Key; Eagles Exposition/MDSPCA; Atlanta Humane Society program at 80 Whitehall St., Opera House in Shelbyville, Tenn., 1/27–28/1899; 1900 Esplanade, Export Exposition; Alhambra Pet Show and Fair, Women’s Auxiliary SPCA pass; Fitzhugh Hall 12/1–6/1902, Rochester, N.Y.; Negro Day at the Exposition (Charleston 1/1/1903); Cooperstown, 9/21–23, Otsego County Fair, “McGuire’s Educated Horses”; 1900 flyer for new play The Horse of the Twentieth Century, at the Jefferson; 1904 purchase form for “The Story of Beautiful Jim Key”; 1905 White City flyer; flyer, program (paid advertising) Omaha Auditorium, 3/26–28/1906; Columbus Memorial Hall, 3/6–8/1906 (pages of paid advertising); 4/2–7/1906 Auditorium pass for Minneapolis Humane Society; Cleveland Grays’ Armory, 4/30–5/5/1906; various ads for 1900 street railway journals, children’s discount tickets, press and VIP passes; First Annual Pure Food, Drug and Confectionery Exposition Cincinnati, Bonner the Great ( Jim Key Band of Mercy); Toledo Humane Society to local clergy on Valentine Theatre benefit with famous horse Cresceus, owned by George Ketchum; National Jim Key Band of Mercy promotion of gold stars and copies of Black Beauty; newspaper composition contests; Rogers business card, “Director of Amusements”
11. Promo materials: Albert R. Rogers stationery, special promotions, letters from Uncle Bert, Jim Key Band of Mercy; Jim Key dictated letter to George Angell (10/1901); souvenir buttons “I Have Seen Jim Key”; Souvenir Young’s Pier, season 1901, Albert and Albert Palmists & Astrologers; composition medals (Women’s Pennsylvania SPCA); flyer for Riverview Park, Baltimore; pass for union members at the New Bijou Theatre; “Jim Key” Special Train to San Antonio, 10/29 (1905); bill for Fighting the Flames for 9/10/1906 Cincinnati Fall Festival
12. Misc. testimonials: letter from Senator T. W. Palmer (Detroit, 5/1/1906); from W. L. Lykens (leading theatrical booking agent); W. L. Tomkins, president of the New Jersey State Fair; Mayor James M. Seymour; editors Newark Evening News, Newark Daily Advertiser, 1897; Wm. R. Riddle, Commander of Ohio United Boys Brigade; 10/7/1897, from M. Jenkins of New Jersey School for Deaf Mutes; 11/11/1897, Ohio Humane Society, S. Ritter, secretary; Nashville Board of Education president, Edward E. Barthell; 11/3/1899, Women’s PA SPCA president Caroline Earle White; T. M. Porter, Sec., Western Pennsylvania Humane Society; Harvard president Charles Eliot, 1901; from School District Board St. Paul, Minn., schools closed for two days, 5/23/1906; Toledo Humane Society, 5/23/1906
Bob Womack Collection: loan of personal writings and clippings for research, sample formulation Keystone Liniment.
Dick Poplin Collection: various writings including article by Dick Poplin, “The Civil War in Bedford County”; letter from Marie Davis Harris (daughter of Dr. Stanley Davis) to Poplin, 2/6/1985.
VITAL RECORDS AND ARCHIVED MATERIALS
Anne Chunko, USTA: pedigree information on Rysdyk’s Hambletonian.
Gail C. Cunard, director, Harness Racing Museum, Goshen, N.Y.: information on background of National Association of Trotting-Horse Breeders; “The Standard of Admission to Registration est. 1879, rev. 1887” and report on “Time Trials”; racing paper page on Trotting/Pacing, The Horseman, 12/13/1894; copy of “Standard Horses,” reg. 2784, Kentucky Volunteer (sire Volunteer 55, dam Kentucky Girl, by Blue Bull 55) bred by John S. Biggs of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Joseph Ditta, New-York Historical Society: research on Jim Key’s New York press appearances; on Rogers as director of Grand Central Palace and 1935 appointment to Connecticut Tercentenary post.
Catherine Medich, New Jersey State Archives: research on Albert R. Rogers and family-owned home Glenmere (Ridgewood, South of Montrose Ave.); 1904 listed in name of mother, 1911 in name of Clara Rogers; drawing of village of South Orange and Glenmere (from Atlas of the Oranges, Essex County, N.J., copyright 1911, by A. H. Mueller, Philadelphia); Mercy Adelia Reynolds Rogers genealogy, “The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton” (Rhode Island founding family); Hamilton County, Ohio, censuses for Hiram Rogers family in 1870, 1880; 1910 Boston, Mass., census for Albert Rogers and family; 1920 census for Albert Rogers in New York.
Marilyn Parker research on Dr. William Key: will of Captain John Key of Winchester, 1838; from John W. Key to Jeptha Minter, bill of sale Negroes, 10/19/1843 (William, age “about eleven,” Caroline, Jack, Nancy for $1,500); 1/3/1866 property deed from William Brown of two and a half acres on Shelbyville and Murfreesboro Turnpike Rd., bought 9/22/1865; 1870, 1880 censuses Keys, Davidsons, Davises; cemetery record book Dr. Key mother-in-law Arabella Davidson (1800–9/17/1882), wife Lucy Davidson (2/1832–8/17/1885), sister Nancy McClain died 10/30/1885, Wm. Key and Lucinda Davis marriage 4/23/1888; death certificate Mrs. Lucinda Davis Key published 8/27/1896; marriage license w/Maggie Davis 3/14/1904: will of Dr. Wm. Key 3/14/04.
Marilyn Parker genealogy of Keys and Davises: cemetery records; “Colored section of Willow Mount” (Dr. William Key, Trainer of Jim Key, 1833–1909, Lucinda Davis Key, M.D., 2/24/1859–8/21/1896; Maggie Davis Key 1865–1935; funeral program for Dr. Stanley W. Davis 11/11/1967 (died 11/10/1967).
Marilyn Parker research on Strother Key: “Tennesseeans in the War of 1812”; records of service as a Volunteer Mounted Gunman; divorce of Strother and Margaret C. Graham (married 1/12/1812 in Sumner County, granted privileges of a feme sole in 1831 in Tennessee Divorces 1797–1858; Strother Key cemetery record 1787–1842).
Marilyn Parker research on John W. Key and family: genealogy of descendants of John Key Sr. of Albemarle, Va. (marriages of Goochland County, Va., 1733–1815, John Key of Albemarle and Nancy Ford); John W. Key born 1813; John Key Sr. will in will book, Sumner County, Tenn.; daughter Polly Bibb Key Blaydes and son Jesse Bibb Key “take it or leave it”; slaves deeded to sons Strother, Captain John, Richard; will of Richard Key, 1820; will of Captain John Key of Franklin County, 1838; 3/25/1840 John W. Key marriage to Martha; chancery court item 1841, a debt involving John W. Key; 1843 legal action involving John W. Key, Jeptha Minter, all of Davidson County; 1851, mother of John W. gives slave to John W. (records in court); 1852 Bedford County Court trade plus cash between John W. and Jeptha Minter, William Key returned to John W.; 7/12/1865 John W. Key Trust Deed to J. M. Minter (242 acres); offspring of John W. Key, Merit Key (M. P. Keys) and Alexander Key (A. K. Keys) in Civil War records, Eighteenth Tennessee Infantry Reg., Co. F.; 1850 census, Merit P. nine years old, Alexander W. seven, John F. five ( John Franklin Key became major, died 1904 in Washington City), Louisa three; 1860 census: John W. Key forty-seven, Martha forty, M.P. nineteen, A. seventeen, J.F. fifteen, L.A. twelve, M.E. (female) eight, E.F. (female) five, W.J. (male) three, Margaret C. sixty-five (no slaves listed).
Marilyn Parker horse research: “Bell Buckle Horse History” by Betty Sain and Benvis Beachboard, compiled by Parker, Bell Buckle, Tennessee, 1986.
Dick Poplin, Bedford County Historian, columnist: Dr. Stanley White Davis materials.
Thomas J. Reider, reference archivist, Ohio Historical Society: research on Albert R. Rogers and family.
Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey (Albert R. Rogers, died 3/31/1946).
Dave Seuss loan of Skeptical Inquirer 2002 research: “Psychic Pets and Pet Psychics.”
Philip Shapiro research on Richard Houston Dudley: born 7/28/1836, son of Christopher Stump Dudley and Louise Pierce Bandy; elected mayor of Nashville 10/4/1897, served until 1900.
Philip Shapiro research on Davis family: 1930 census, Stanley Davis fifty-one, Lillie forty-seven, Stanley Jr. nineteen, Marie fifteen, Harriet C. thirteen, William Key six.
Philip Shapiro research on descendants of A. R. Rogers: Archibald Rogers born 6/18/1895, died 4/1974.
St. Louis Public Library, Central Library, Special Collections: copy of invitation to opening performances of Beautiful Jim Key, 4/30/1904 benefit for the American Humane Education Society.
Leilah Strachen, Harvard Student Agencies: Boston research.
Sylvia Weedman, library assistant, the Bostonian Society.
Annie Mott Whitman/Campbell family tree research: marriages of Lucy Davidson and Hattie Davidson to Dr. Key.
INDIVIDUALS, AUTHORITIES, LIBRARIES, AGENCIES, INTERVIEWS, AND QUERIES
Nancy Campbell Barnett, Shelbyville, Tennessee; oral histories on civil rights in Bedford County (niece of Essie Campbell Davis), secondhand recollections of Jim Key in later years.
Randolph Whittington Best, oral historian and student of Tennessee history, music, and Civil War; on Staff Union Station Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee.
Anne Chunko, USTA, Standardbred Equestrian Program.
Jim Cooper, Congressman, 5th district Tennessee, on Shelbyville and family history.
Dianna Dennis, author, equestrian expert, Moderator on Chronicle of the Horse Bulletin Board (Chronicle of the Horse Magazine); on equine intelligence, bloodlines.
Joseph Ditta, reference librarian, the New-York Historical Society; research on Jim Key’s New York debut; Albert R. Rogers in New York.
Benjamin Feldman, lawyer, authority New York real estate law, author; account of work of Grand Central Palace, Lexington Avenue, A. R. Rogers era.
Stephen Fife, playwright, author, humorist; on early American theatre history, lower Broadway in 1890s, location of Maiden Lane.
Susan Gordon, Special Collections, Tennessee State Library and Archives.
David Hoffman; overall process of excavating history, notes on inventions, time period, era of world’s fairs.
Portia Iversen, founder Cure Autism Now, author of Strange Son (Riverhead Press, due 2005), coauthor with Soma Mukhopadhyay of Rapid Prompting Method manual (Riverhead Press, due 2005); on alternative mental processes.
Janis Jones, expert US Trotters; on John H. Wallace, Wallace’s Year Book registry, recommended Master St. Elmo.
Catherine Medich, New Jersey State Archives; Rogers genealogy, New Jersey performances, Standardbred expertise.
Megan Milford, Massachusetts Historical Society; research for Harvard study of Beautiful Jim Key.
Marilyn Wade Parker, commissary of the Tennessee Brigade of the Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army of Valley Forge.
Dick Poplin, Bedford County, Tenn., author, historian; oral history of family members who saw Jim perform.
Clara Nelson Singleton, Shelbyville, Tennessee, writer and oral historian; family members/slaves who served in the Civil War.
Nancy Stowers, Shelbyville, Tennessee; oral history of family members who saw Jim Key perform; neighbor of Essie and Sam Davis.
Kathryn Kerby Tolle, Shelbyville, Tennessee; oral history of father and uncle who saw Jim Key perform.
Annie Mott Whitman, music teacher, songwriter, author of The Unbelievable Love: Here & Beyond (Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books Library, 2002).
Hanne Wolf; correspondence regarding Wilhelm von Osten, Clever Hans, Morocco.