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
Capitoli (114)
1The Apology
2:01
2Apostrophe to an Orphan Mule
2:16
3A Miners' Meeting - My Mine - A Mirage on the Plains
7:51
4The True Story of Damon and Pythias
7:30
5Sad Memories of the Dead Year
4:44
6Bill Nye's Thirteenth Grand Semi-Annual Farewell Circus and Hippodrome
7:01
7Letter from Paris
4:05
8Prehistoric Crockery
5:18
9Suggestions for a School of Journalism
7:33
10The Fragrant Mormon
2:51
11Recollections of the Opera
5:04
12A Sunny Little Incident
3:22
13He Rewarded Her
1:11
14The Modern Parlor Stove
3:18
15Remarks to Originators
3:02
16Queer
0:53
17Sic Semper Gloria Houseplant
1:49
18How to Tell
1:20
19Biography of Colorow
2:48
20Diary of a Saucy Young Thing
2:16
21Killing off the James Boys
2:26
22A Relic
2:12
23Some Reasons why I can't be an Indian Agent
5:27
24The Picnic Snoozer's Lament
1:13
25Billious Nye and Boomerang in the Gold Mines
6:21
26Two Great Men
2:51
27Dirty Murphy
2:30
28A Rocky Mountain Sunset
2:31
29The Temperature of the Bumble-bee
1:53
30Drawbacks of Public Life
3:31
31The Glad, Free Life of the Miner
4:57
32Some Thoughts of Childhood
3:20
33The New Adjustable Campaign Song
3:28
34Sitting down on a Venerable Joke
3:02
35A Hairbreadth Escape
3:43
36Myself, Dr. Talmage and Other Divines
6:20
37Fine-cut as a Means of Grace
3:07
38The Weather and Some Other Things
5:22
39The Parable of the Unjust Steward
4:09
40Ode to Spring
1:05
41The Parable of the Prodigal Son
4:29
42The Indian and the Everlasting Gospel
6:27
43The Muse
12:08
44Shoeing a Broncho
5:13
45Pumpkin Jim; or the Tale of a Busted Jackass Rabbit
13:19
46William Nye and the Heathen Chinee
6:04
47Hong Lee's Grand Benefit at Leadville
3:25
48You Fou
2:32
49The Lop-eared Lovers of the Little Laramie
13:37
50Speech of Spartacus
8:30
51Correspondence
11:03
52He Went Out West for His Health
6:09
53A Quiet Little Wedding without any Frills
6:06
54Thoughts on Spring
3:50
55The Same Old Thing
6:34
56The Veteran who died while getting his Pension
5:37
57Gingerbread Poems and Cold Pickled Facts
5:13
58Origin of Beautiful Snow
6:03
59Ute Eloquence
3:30
60The Aged Indian's Lament
3:54
61How a Mining Stampede breaks out
4:23
62The Great Rocky Mountain Re-union of Yaller Dogs
3:54
63What Woman's Suffrage has done for Wyoming
5:12
64Portuguese without a Master
5:45
65The Rocky Mountain Hog
3:11
66The Buckness wherewith the Buck Beer Bucketh
1:53
67Billious Nye and the Amateur Stage
3:36
68A Journalistic Correction
1:31
69Bankrupt Sale of Literary Gems
1:45
70Thoughts on Marriage
4:42
71A Ute Presidential Convention
11:52
72The Club-footed Lover of Piute Pass
7:17
73The Automatic Liar
3:45
74Some Post-office Fiends
6:01
75Agriculture at an altitude of 7,500 feet
2:53
76The Gentle Youth from Leadville
3:04
77A Snide Journalist
6:42
78He Was Blind
3:49
79Thoughts of the Mellow Previously
3:43
80My Tombstone Mine
6:22
81Bankrupt Sale of a Circus
5:58
82Greeley versus Valley Tan
1:38
83The Eternal Fitness of Things
3:01
84They Unanimously Arose and Hung Him
4:04
85Rhetoric versus Woodtick
5:32
86The Model Wife
5:53
87Some Overland Tourists
6:01
88Catching Mountain Trout at an elevation of 8,000 feet
4:23
89Home-made Indian Relics
6:38
90The Previous Reporter
3:02
91The Peace Commission
4:20
92Some Answers to Correspondents
6:19
93The Crow Indian and His Caws
4:25
94The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis
4:18
95The Holiday Hog
1:35
96Some Census Conundrums
2:29
97The Gentle Power of a Woman's Influence
4:18
98The Native Inborn Shiftlessness of the Prairie Dogs
2:03
99Answers to Correspondents
7:14
100The Secret of Garfield's Election
4:35
101Perils of the Butternut Picker
6:57
102A Word or Two about the Swallow
4:10
103Laughing Sam
3:02
104The Calamity Jane Consolidated
2:10
105The Nocturnal Cow
3:34
106The Relentless Garden Hose
1:31
107A Wail
2:16
108The Great, Horrid Man Receiveth New Year Calls
2:53
109Just the Thing
1:41
110Thanks
1:32
111An Anti-Mormon Town
1:33
112A Christmas Ride in July
2:01
113Examining the Brand on a Frozen Steer
1:28
114Onion Peelin's
3:20
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