The popular television show ran from 1949 to 1957.
The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. Clayton Moore played the Lone Ranger. Tonto was played by Jay Silverheels.
The fictional story line maintains that all of the Texas Rangers, except one, are massacred. The "lone" survivor thereafter disguises himself with a black mask and travels with Tonto throughout Texas and the American West to assist those challenged by the lawless elements. A silver mine supplies The Lone Ranger with the name of his horse as well as the funds and bullets required to finance his wandering life-style. At least a decade before he was cast as Sam Noonan, the bartender on Gunsmoke Glenn Strange, a native of Brown County, Texas, was cast in eight episodes as the evil Butch Cavendish.
