Despite the television show’s invitation to return to “those thrilling days of yesteryear,” The Lone Ranger of the 1950s depicted times, places and things as they never were.
The mask alone would have earned the Texas Ranger, John Reid, a necktie party by one vigilance committee or another in the Old West. As for the rest of his ensemble, that powder blue leisure suit would have gotten actor Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger, laughed off the frontier. Likewise, his pinched-f
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