Why is this story so important today? A radio and television series that ran in the late 1940’s through the mid 50’s that I didn’t even have an opportunity to watch, and really didn’t understand what the Lone Ranger represented until very recently while watching retro television. It’s fiction, but as I watched it I came to realize that this show was not just for its entertainment qualities but how it depicted what was right with the world and how one man could make a difference.
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The Legend of The Lone Ranger
The legend has it that 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 is ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. Later, an Indian stumbles onto the scene and
discovers one ranger is barely alive, and he nurses the man back to health. The Indian recognizes
the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children. The Indian gave
the man named Reid a ring and the name Kemo Sabe, which means "trusty scout". Among the
Rangers killed was the survivor's older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas
Rangers and the leader of the ambushed group. To conceal his identity and honor his fallen
brother, Reid fashions a black domino mask using cloth from his late brother's vest. To aid in the
deception, the Indian digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross bearing Reid's name so that
Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed. The Indian's name
was Tonto and Reid the lone surviving ranger from the ambush became The Lone Ranger.
Taken in part from Wikipedia
Why is this story so important today? A radio and television series that ran in the late 1940's
through the mid 50's that I didn't even have an opportunity to watch, and really didn't
understand what the Lone Ranger represented until very recently while watching retro television.
It's fiction, but as I watched it I came to realize that this show was not just for its entertainment
qualities but how it depicted what was right with the world and how one man could make a
difference.
The Lone Ranger lived by a certain moral code. He was consistent, never changed, and even
when he had to use his gun he never shot to kill but rather to disarm. He had the ability to disarm
the perpetrator using both physical and verbal means.
He believed:
That to have a friend, a man must be one/ that all men are created equal and that everyone has