The Lone Ranger is the only survivor of an ambush by the Cavendish gang on a detachment of Texas Rangers. Tonto, a childhood companion stumbles across the injured Ranger and nurses him back to health.

The Lone Ranger is instructed to locate Clay Trowbridge, a man wrongly convicted of robbery and murder but who'd broken out of jail to avoid a lynch mob. With the real instigator of the crimes in ...

The Lone Ranger became famous for its title character (Clayton Moore) and his Native American sidekick named Tonto (Jay Silverheels). It all started with the 1933 ...

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"Lawmen: Bass Reeves" has been telling the long overdue story of a real-life Western hero, the formerly enslaved Reeves (David Oyelowo), who became the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Westerns were once one of Hollywood’s most popular genres. And while the cowboy motif draws from a lot of southwest culture, it also has roots in Michigan. This week will ...

When “The Lone Ranger” rides into theaters nationwide next week, an actor with deep Western New York roots – and a resumé that includes parts in some of the most recognizable films of the past two ...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto are after an outlaw who is trying to leave the gang and go back to the wife and son he left years ago. The Lone Ranger is hot on the heels of the Kansas kid when he ...