The Lone Ranger

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Based on a 1940s and 1950s  Radio and TV series the "Lone Ranger".

The Lone Ranger is so named because the character is the last survivor of a group of Texas Rangers, rather than because he works alone.

While details differ, the basic story of the origin of the Lone Ranger is the same in most versions of the franchise. A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish is betrayed by a civilian guide named Collins and ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. Later, an Indian named Tonto stumbles onto the scene and discovers one ranger is still alive, though barely. He nurses the man, whom the radio show eventually established as being named John Reid, back to health. Among the Rangers killed was John's older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas Rangers and the leader of the ambushed group. John Reid fashions a black domino mask, using material from his brother's vest, to conceal his identity. To aid in the deception, Tonto digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross with John's name so that Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed.

In many versions Reid continues fighting for justice as The Lone Ranger even after the Cavendish gang is captured.

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The Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore, Tonto, Jay Silverheels
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