MUSEUM OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE

THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO

1933. A young Potawatomi named Tonto barely survives a massacre by a tribe that leaves his mother and sister dead. Young John Reid, coming upon the tragedy, rescues Tonto. Years later, Tonto finds that John Reid is the only survivor of an ambush of Texas Rangers by outlaws, and rescues him. Donning a mask, Reid calls himself the Lone Ranger; he and his friend Tonto blaze a trail of justice in the early west. The masked man and his friend were created for radio by George W. Trendel, and written by Fran Striker. The mysterious duo appears in radio, pulp magazines, serials, newspaper comic strips, novels, comic books, Big Little Books, cartoons and movies. The Lone Ranger was the first western on TV.

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