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

Bill Nye (1850 - 1896)

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

Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Satire, Westerns

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 To My Mule Boomerang DaleBarkley
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Play 01 The Apology DaleBarkley
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Play 02 Apostrophe to an Orphan Mule DaleBarkley
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Play 03 A Miners' Meeting - My Mine - A Mirage on the Plains DaleBarkley
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Play 04 The True Story of Damon and Pythias DaleBarkley
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Play 05 Sad Memories of the Dead Year DaleBarkley
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Play 06 Bill Nye's Thirteenth Grand Semi-Annual Farewell Circus and Hippodrome DaleBarkley
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Play 07 Letter from Paris DaleBarkley
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Play 08 Prehistoric Crockery DaleBarkley
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Play 09 Suggestions for a School of Journalism DaleBarkley
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Play 10 The Fragrant Mormon DaleBarkley
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Play 11 Recollections of the Opera DaleBarkley
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Play 12 A Sunny Little Incident DaleBarkley
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Play 13 He Rewarded Her DaleBarkley
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Play 14 The Modern Parlor Stove DaleBarkley
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Play 15 Remarks to Originators DaleBarkley
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Play 16 Queer DaleBarkley
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Play 17 Sic Semper Gloria Houseplant DaleBarkley
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Play 18 How to Tell DaleBarkley
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Play 19 Biography of Colorow DaleBarkley
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Play 20 Diary of a Saucy Young Thing DaleBarkley
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Play 21 Killing off the James Boys DaleBarkley
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Play 22 A Relic DaleBarkley
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Play 23 Some Reasons why I can't be an Indian Agent DaleBarkley
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Play 24 The Picnic Snoozer's Lament DaleBarkley
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Play 25 Billious Nye and Boomerang in the Gold Mines DaleBarkley
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Play 26 Two Great Men DaleBarkley
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Play 27 Dirty Murphy DaleBarkley
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Play 28 A Rocky Mountain Sunset DaleBarkley
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Play 29 The Temperature of the Bumble-bee DaleBarkley
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Play 30 Drawbacks of Public Life DaleBarkley
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Play 31 The Glad, Free Life of the Miner DaleBarkley
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Play 32 Some Thoughts of Childhood DaleBarkley
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Play 33 The New Adjustable Campaign Song DaleBarkley
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Play 34 Sitting down on a Venerable Joke DaleBarkley
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Play 35 A Hairbreadth Escape DaleBarkley
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Play 36 Myself, Dr. Talmage and Other Divines DaleBarkley
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Play 37 Fine-cut as a Means of Grace DaleBarkley
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Play 38 The Weather and Some Other Things DaleBarkley
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Play 39 The Parable of the Unjust Steward DaleBarkley
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Play 40 Ode to Spring DaleBarkley
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Play 41 The Parable of the Prodigal Son DaleBarkley
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Play 42 The Indian and the Everlasting Gospel DaleBarkley
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Play 43 The Muse DaleBarkley
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Play 44 Shoeing a Broncho DaleBarkley
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Play 45 Pumpkin Jim; or the Tale of a Busted Jackass Rabbit DaleBarkley
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Play 46 William Nye and the Heathen Chinee DaleBarkley
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Play 47 Hong Lee's Grand Benefit at Leadville DaleBarkley
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Play 48 You Fou DaleBarkley
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Play 49 The Lop-eared Lovers of the Little Laramie DaleBarkley
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Play 50 Speech of Spartacus DaleBarkley
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Play 51 Correspondence DaleBarkley
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Play 52 He Went Out West for His Health DaleBarkley
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Play 53 A Quiet Little Wedding without any Frills DaleBarkley
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Play 54 Thoughts on Spring DaleBarkley
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Play 55 The Same Old Thing DaleBarkley
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Play 56 The Veteran who died while getting his Pension DaleBarkley
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Play 57 Gingerbread Poems and Cold Pickled Facts DaleBarkley
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Play 58 Origin of Beautiful Snow DaleBarkley
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Play 59 Ute Eloquence DaleBarkley
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Play 60 The Aged Indian's Lament DaleBarkley
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Play 61 How a Mining Stampede breaks out DaleBarkley
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Play 62 The Great Rocky Mountain Re-union of Yaller Dogs DaleBarkley
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Play 63 What Woman's Suffrage has done for Wyoming DaleBarkley
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Play 64 Portuguese without a Master DaleBarkley
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Play 65 The Rocky Mountain Hog DaleBarkley
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Play 66 The Buckness wherewith the Buck Beer Bucketh DaleBarkley
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Play 67 Billious Nye and the Amateur Stage DaleBarkley
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Play 68 A Journalistic Correction DaleBarkley
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Play 69 Bankrupt Sale of Literary Gems DaleBarkley
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Play 70 Thoughts on Marriage DaleBarkley
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Play 71 A Ute Presidential Convention DaleBarkley
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Play 72 The Club-footed Lover of Piute Pass DaleBarkley
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Play 73 The Automatic Liar DaleBarkley
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Play 74 Some Post-office Fiends DaleBarkley
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Play 75 Agriculture at an altitude of 7,500 feet DaleBarkley
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Play 76 The Gentle Youth from Leadville DaleBarkley
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Play 77 A Snide Journalist DaleBarkley
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Play 78 He Was Blind DaleBarkley
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Play 79 Thoughts of the Mellow Previously DaleBarkley
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Play 80 My Tombstone Mine DaleBarkley
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Play 81 Bankrupt Sale of a Circus DaleBarkley
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Play 82 Greeley versus Valley Tan DaleBarkley
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Play 83 The Eternal Fitness of Things DaleBarkley
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Play 84 They Unanimously Arose and Hung Him DaleBarkley
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Play 85 Rhetoric versus Woodtick DaleBarkley
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Play 86 The Model Wife DaleBarkley
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Play 87 Some Overland Tourists DaleBarkley
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Play 88 Catching Mountain Trout at an elevation of 8,000 feet DaleBarkley
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Play 89 Home-made Indian Relics DaleBarkley
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Play 90 The Previous Reporter DaleBarkley
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Play 91 The Peace Commission DaleBarkley
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Play 92 Some Answers to Correspondents DaleBarkley
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Play 93 The Crow Indian and His Caws DaleBarkley
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Play 94 The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis DaleBarkley
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Play 95 The Holiday Hog DaleBarkley
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Play 96 Some Census Conundrums DaleBarkley
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Play 97 The Gentle Power of a Woman's Influence DaleBarkley
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Play 98 The Native Inborn Shiftlessness of the Prairie Dogs DaleBarkley
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Play 99 Answers to Correspondents DaleBarkley
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Play 100 The Secret of Garfield's Election DaleBarkley
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Play 101 Perils of the Butternut Picker DaleBarkley
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Play 102 A Word or Two about the Swallow DaleBarkley
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Play 103 Laughing Sam DaleBarkley
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Play 104 The Calamity Jane Consolidated DaleBarkley
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Play 105 The Nocturnal Cow DaleBarkley
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Play 106 The Relentless Garden Hose DaleBarkley
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Play 107 A Wail DaleBarkley
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Play 108 The Great, Horrid Man Receiveth New Year Calls DaleBarkley
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Play 109 Just the Thing DaleBarkley
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Play 110 Thanks DaleBarkley
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Play 111 An Anti-Mormon Town DaleBarkley
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Play 112 A Christmas Ride in July DaleBarkley
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Play 113 Examining the Brand on a Frozen Steer DaleBarkley
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Play 114 Onion Peelin's DaleBarkley
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