Bill Nye and Boomerang; Or the Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems

Bill Nye and Boomerang; Or the Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems

by Bill Nye

115 chapters8h 17mEnglish1883

About this book

Humorist Bill Nye was the first editor of the daily paper in Laramie, Wyoming, and named it the Laramie Boomerang in honor of his mule. As Nye’s son Frank said, something about the word “boomerang” piqued Nye’s imagination, as it described the "eccentricity of his orbit". “His mule, his mine, his newspaper, his [first] book [Bill Nye and Boomerang], all bore the trademark.” The book, according to Nye, includes "some little epics and ethereal flights of fancy..." and said "it affords me great pleasure...to know what a feeling of blessed rest and childlike confidence and assurance - and some more things of that nature - will follow the publication of this work." Warning: Common side-effects include uncontrollable side-slapping laughter and giggling. Listen with extreme caution. - Summary by Dale Barkley, proudly from Laramie

Chapters (114)

1The Apology
121
2Apostrophe to an Orphan Mule
136
3A Miners' Meeting - My Mine - A Mirage on the Plains
471
4The True Story of Damon and Pythias
450
5Sad Memories of the Dead Year
284
6Bill Nye's Thirteenth Grand Semi-Annual Farewell Circus and Hippodrome
421
7Letter from Paris
245
8Prehistoric Crockery
318
9Suggestions for a School of Journalism
453
10The Fragrant Mormon
171
11Recollections of the Opera
304
12A Sunny Little Incident
202
13He Rewarded Her
71
14The Modern Parlor Stove
198
15Remarks to Originators
182
16Queer
53
17Sic Semper Gloria Houseplant
109
18How to Tell
80
19Biography of Colorow
168
20Diary of a Saucy Young Thing
136
21Killing off the James Boys
146
22A Relic
132
23Some Reasons why I can't be an Indian Agent
327
24The Picnic Snoozer's Lament
73
25Billious Nye and Boomerang in the Gold Mines
381
26Two Great Men
171
27Dirty Murphy
150
28A Rocky Mountain Sunset
151
29The Temperature of the Bumble-bee
113
30Drawbacks of Public Life
211
31The Glad, Free Life of the Miner
297
32Some Thoughts of Childhood
200
33The New Adjustable Campaign Song
208
34Sitting down on a Venerable Joke
182
35A Hairbreadth Escape
223
36Myself, Dr. Talmage and Other Divines
380
37Fine-cut as a Means of Grace
187
38The Weather and Some Other Things
322
39The Parable of the Unjust Steward
249
40Ode to Spring
65
41The Parable of the Prodigal Son
269
42The Indian and the Everlasting Gospel
387
43The Muse
728
44Shoeing a Broncho
313
45Pumpkin Jim; or the Tale of a Busted Jackass Rabbit
799
46William Nye and the Heathen Chinee
364
47Hong Lee's Grand Benefit at Leadville
205
48You Fou
152
49The Lop-eared Lovers of the Little Laramie
817
50Speech of Spartacus
510
51Correspondence
663
52He Went Out West for His Health
369
53A Quiet Little Wedding without any Frills
366
54Thoughts on Spring
230
55The Same Old Thing
394
56The Veteran who died while getting his Pension
337
57Gingerbread Poems and Cold Pickled Facts
313
58Origin of Beautiful Snow
363
59Ute Eloquence
210
60The Aged Indian's Lament
234
61How a Mining Stampede breaks out
263
62The Great Rocky Mountain Re-union of Yaller Dogs
234
63What Woman's Suffrage has done for Wyoming
312
64Portuguese without a Master
345
65The Rocky Mountain Hog
191
66The Buckness wherewith the Buck Beer Bucketh
113
67Billious Nye and the Amateur Stage
216
68A Journalistic Correction
91
69Bankrupt Sale of Literary Gems
105
70Thoughts on Marriage
282
71A Ute Presidential Convention
712
72The Club-footed Lover of Piute Pass
437
73The Automatic Liar
225
74Some Post-office Fiends
361
75Agriculture at an altitude of 7,500 feet
173
76The Gentle Youth from Leadville
184
77A Snide Journalist
402
78He Was Blind
229
79Thoughts of the Mellow Previously
223
80My Tombstone Mine
382
81Bankrupt Sale of a Circus
358
82Greeley versus Valley Tan
98
83The Eternal Fitness of Things
181
84They Unanimously Arose and Hung Him
244
85Rhetoric versus Woodtick
332
86The Model Wife
353
87Some Overland Tourists
361
88Catching Mountain Trout at an elevation of 8,000 feet
263
89Home-made Indian Relics
398
90The Previous Reporter
182
91The Peace Commission
260
92Some Answers to Correspondents
379
93The Crow Indian and His Caws
265
94The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis
258
95The Holiday Hog
95
96Some Census Conundrums
149
97The Gentle Power of a Woman's Influence
258
98The Native Inborn Shiftlessness of the Prairie Dogs
123
99Answers to Correspondents
434
100The Secret of Garfield's Election
275
101Perils of the Butternut Picker
417
102A Word or Two about the Swallow
250
103Laughing Sam
182
104The Calamity Jane Consolidated
130
105The Nocturnal Cow
214
106The Relentless Garden Hose
91
107A Wail
136
108The Great, Horrid Man Receiveth New Year Calls
173
109Just the Thing
101
110Thanks
92
111An Anti-Mormon Town
93
112A Christmas Ride in July
121
113Examining the Brand on a Frozen Steer
88
114Onion Peelin's
200

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