It launched him to national fame, gaining the newspaper subscribers in every state and many foreign countries.

Nye contributed several humorous articles to the Boomerang, and served as the paper's editor until 1884.

In 1901, the paper became Laramie Boomerang, and was published daily except Sundays, or, during some periods, except Mondays instead.

He had also served as secretary, in 1923, to Wyoming's Democratic Governor William Bradford Ross, and, in 1924, to U.S.

Eventually, the Boomerang owner established a "close friendship" with Wyoming's Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, forming the state's renown "political steam roller" labeled the "M-O-M."[4] In 1957, another local paper, The Laramie Daily Bulletin, which had been published Tuesdays through Saturdays since 1931, merged with the Republican and Boomerang presses, and the combined paper became The Laramie Daily Boomerang, published daily except on Mondays.