Ten years ago, Disney’s “The Lone Ranger” galloped into theaters everywhere. An updated and deconstructed version of the character known primarily for his black mask and white horse (named Silver), ...

Long before superheroes filled the multiplex, America already had its own masked champion riding across the airwaves and into our imaginations. The Lone Ranger, wasn’t born in comic books or on a ...

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. My colleague, Robert Siegel, is off today for the holiday. But, we're going to return with him now to a thrilling day of yesteryear.

In the late 1970s, with a new movie in the works, Clayton Moore, the REAL Lone Ranger, was forbidden from wearing his traditional mask. His fans were outraged. Maybe there was some kind of justice ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Fran Striker may not be a household name, but chances are, you know of his work. He is the man who created one of the most well-known Old West heroes of all time, The Lone Ranger.

Most TV fans of a certain age know the answer to this question: "Who played the Lone Ranger?" Those who say Clayton Moore are correct -- at least partly. There was another actor who played the Masked ...

When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid (Klinton Spilsbury), is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the outlaw leader, Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd), he is rescued by an old ...

Everyone knows the Lone Ranger as the fictional masked man who fought outlaws in the old American West with his Native American sidekick, Tonto. Wearing a black mask, and frequently atop his iconic ...