Lone Ranger

Lone Ranger
a character in stories about the American Wild West who spends his life preserving justice and fighting those who do wrong. He wears a mask and rides a white horse called Silver. His Native-American friend Tonto calls him ‘Kemo Sabe’ (which means ‘trusty scout’). Together they defeated many outlaws (= criminals). Fran Striker created the character for a US radio series (1933–54) and then wrote 17 Lone Ranger novels. The Lone Ranger was also a popular television series (1949–57), with Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger.

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▪ American fictional character
 renegade lawman in the American West, a fictional character of American radio and television programs, books, films, and comics.

      In all media the Lone Ranger fictions are similar. John Reid was born in 1850 and was the sole survivor of a group of Texas Rangers who were ambushed by outlaws who killed five rangers, including his older brother, Daniel. The Indian Tonto found him and nursed him to health. Reid then donned a black mask made from his dead brother's vest, mounted his stallion, Silver, and roamed the West as the Lone Ranger to aid those in need, to fight evil, and to establish justice.

      The character was created in the Lone Ranger radio program by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. First aired on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Mich., on Jan. 30, 1933, the radio program was carried by more than 400 American stations by the end of the decade. It was radio that made the Lone Ranger's theme song, Gioachino Rossini's “William Tell Overture,” a familiar tune in every child's repertoire, and it was radio that made “Hi-yo Silver, Away!” a familiar playground exclamation.

      The Lone Ranger's first movie serial appeared in 1938. In 1949 the radio show moved to television, and the sounds were linked to images and actors who became equally familiar. Clayton Moore played the Lone Ranger for all but a few episodes, and Jay Silverheels became the embodied Tonto. The television show was syndicated for four years, then picked up by the Columbia Broadcasting System, on which it ran until 1958. The show continued to run in syndication, and in 1980 an entirely new movie, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, appeared.

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