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Bill Nye, born Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye, was one of America’s most famous and beloved humorists and journalists He was born in Maine around 1850 and raised in Wisconsin. He moved to Wyoming from Wisconsin in 1876 and became a lawyer, postmaster, justice of the peace, and later becoming a judge. He founded and edited the Laramie Daily Boomerang, named in honor of his mule. Nye soon achieved national fame for his poker faced, tongue-in-cheek editorials and his humorous comments and yarns of frontier life as a correspondent for several national newspapers. He remained in Wyoming until 1886, then moving to New York City and continued writing, authoring several books and plays. His highly successful life was cut short when he died of a stroke in North Carolina in 1896. |
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