Post #627009 by TikiTomD on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 3:13 PM

Limbo Lizard, Rascals in Paradise is one Michener book that I don’t have on my bookshelf, but probably should.

I don’t recall seeing this, but there was a 1983 movie, Nate and Hayes, loosely based on the life of Bully Hayes, starring Tommy Lee Jones as Hayes. It is apparently available on DVD...

There’s even a Bully Hayes Restaurant & Bar, located in Akaroa, New Zealand...

Here are a couple of 19th century newspaper articles from the National Library of New Zealand archives that report the demise of Bully Hayes. The second one mentions the wife and children living on Samoa, later encountered by Dr. Funk, much to his detriment...

Taranaki Herald October 8, 1877

Evening Post October 27, 1877

Here’s one more article that is insightful on the character of Hayes, and also presaged the movie to come more than three quarters of a century later...

Southland Times August 25, 1903

-Tom