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NONFICTION; 'The secret ... was love'; The inseparable Beautiful Jim Key and his owner changed the way we think of animals.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Book Review)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20050227
Author:Winegar, Karin

Byline: Karin Winegar

Special to the Star Tribune

In 1877, Anna Sewell's immortal novel "Black Beauty" sparked a movement toward the humane treatment of horses; a few decades later, Beautiful Jim Key, a real horse and a true prodigy, ran full speed with it. With "Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World," author Mim Eichler Rivas restores a powerful and provocative piece of animal history to its rightful place.

A shift in the public regard for animals - not to mention certain humans - occurred in the wake of the Civil War and was ...

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