Most everyone has heard of Bill Nye the Science Guy, but in the 1880s another Bill Nye was just as popular.

He gained notoriety as a humorist staged from a little newspaper he had launched in Laramie, Wyo. The Boomerang was named after his favorite mule. Bill Nye’s humor was genuine and so was The Boomerang.

Born Edgar Wilson Nye near the pine forests of Maine, and “bred a lawyer” Mr. Nye ventured forth to Laramie, Wyo., to practice law and “grow up with the territory in any way that offered.” With only 35 cents in his pocket he had to grow up fast.

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