On January 30, 1933, The Lone Ranger debuted on the Detroit, Michigan, radio station WXYZ, introducing America to the legendary masked rider. This Date in Native ...

The Lone Ranger began as a radio show during the 1930s and 1940s before becoming a television series in 1949. The opening episode told the now familiar story of how the Lone Ranger got his name ...

Radio programs provided a source of inspiration, with heroes like the Lone Ranger and The Shadow getting embroiled in deadly capers. But they also promoted old-fashioned American family values and ...

The Lone Ranger” was first aired by WXYZ radio station in Detroit, Mich., on Jan. 31, 1933.   Over the past 92 years, while opinions vary as to whether the leading character ...

“You just made Ollie Glass a happy bunny. We were just winding up for the holidays when the Lone Ranger music came on and he got up on his ‘hoss’ and galloped off out the gates shooting off ...

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.

The Lone Ranger is a 1938 American Republic Pictures movie serial based on The Lone Ranger radio program. It was the ninth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic, the fourth Western (a third of ...

As Avi Santos has written, over 10 million people a week listened to the Lone Ranger radio show, while nearly 100 million readers a week devoured the Lone Ranger newspaper comic strip. Cowboy fan ...