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

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Satire, Humorous Fiction, Westerns, Single Author Collections

Authors: Bill Nye In Year : 1883

Book Language: English

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

To My Mule Boomerang
The Apology
Apostrophe to an Orphan Mule
A Miners' Meeting - My Mine - A Mirage on the Plains
The True Story of Damon and Pythias
Sad Memories of the Dead Year
Bill Nye's Thirteenth Grand Semi-Annual Farewell Circus and Hippodrome
Letter from Paris
Prehistoric Crockery
Suggestions for a School of Journalism
The Fragrant Mormon
Recollections of the Opera
A Sunny Little Incident
He Rewarded Her
The Modern Parlor Stove
Remarks to Originators
Queer
Sic Semper Gloria Houseplant
How to Tell
Biography of Colorow
Diary of a Saucy Young Thing
Killing off the James Boys
A Relic
Some Reasons why I can't be an Indian Agent
The Picnic Snoozer's Lament
Billious Nye and Boomerang in the Gold Mines
Two Great Men
Dirty Murphy
A Rocky Mountain Sunset
The Temperature of the Bumble-bee
Drawbacks of Public Life
The Glad, Free Life of the Miner
Some Thoughts of Childhood
The New Adjustable Campaign Song
Sitting down on a Venerable Joke
A Hairbreadth Escape
Myself, Dr. Talmage and Other Divines
Fine-cut as a Means of Grace
The Weather and Some Other Things
The Parable of the Unjust Steward
Ode to Spring
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
The Indian and the Everlasting Gospel
The Muse
Shoeing a Broncho
Pumpkin Jim; or the Tale of a Busted Jackass Rabbit
William Nye and the Heathen Chinee
Hong Lee's Grand Benefit at Leadville
You Fou
The Lop-eared Lovers of the Little Laramie
Speech of Spartacus
Correspondence
He Went Out West for His Health
A Quiet Little Wedding without any Frills
Thoughts on Spring
The Same Old Thing
The Veteran who died while getting his Pension
Gingerbread Poems and Cold Pickled Facts
Origin of Beautiful Snow
Ute Eloquence
The Aged Indian's Lament
How a Mining Stampede breaks out
The Great Rocky Mountain Re-union of Yaller Dogs
What Woman's Suffrage has done for Wyoming
Portuguese without a Master
The Rocky Mountain Hog
The Buckness wherewith the Buck Beer Bucketh
Billious Nye and the Amateur Stage
A Journalistic Correction
Bankrupt Sale of Literary Gems
Thoughts on Marriage
A Ute Presidential Convention
The Club-footed Lover of Piute Pass
The Automatic Liar
Some Post-office Fiends
Agriculture at an altitude of 7,500 feet
The Gentle Youth from Leadville
A Snide Journalist
He Was Blind
Thoughts of the Mellow Previously
My Tombstone Mine
Bankrupt Sale of a Circus
Greeley versus Valley Tan
The Eternal Fitness of Things
They Unanimously Arose and Hung Him
Rhetoric versus Woodtick
The Model Wife
Some Overland Tourists
Catching Mountain Trout at an elevation of 8,000 feet
Home-made Indian Relics
The Previous Reporter
The Peace Commission
Some Answers to Correspondents
The Crow Indian and His Caws
The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis
The Holiday Hog
Some Census Conundrums
The Gentle Power of a Woman's Influence
The Native Inborn Shiftlessness of the Prairie Dogs
Answers to Correspondents
The Secret of Garfield's Election
Perils of the Butternut Picker
A Word or Two about the Swallow
Laughing Sam
The Calamity Jane Consolidated
The Nocturnal Cow
The Relentless Garden Hose
A Wail
The Great, Horrid Man Receiveth New Year Calls
Just the Thing
Thanks
An Anti-Mormon Town
A Christmas Ride in July
Examining the Brand on a Frozen Steer
Onion Peelin's

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