On Christmas Eve in 1986, Clayton Moore flew into Houston, Texas, and discovered his luggage was lost, an unfortunate, but rather commonplace, event at airports. But then his bag could not be found.
In his suitcase, Moore, who planned on riding in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, on New Year’s Day, had packed his Lone Ranger Colt pistols, gunbelt, two costumes and 36 silver bullets. “Fortunately, the mask was with my wife and I on the plane along with my white hat,â

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- Rough Drafts 9/13
- What did U.S. lawmen think of the North West Mounted Police?
- When a famous gunfighter came to town, would most folks have recognized him?
- How did Hollywood create those resonant gunshot sounds in 1940s and 1950s B-Westerns?
- Western Horizons
- Opening Shot Dissected…
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- The Pies Have It
- Butter Me Up
- Long Road Home for Buffalo Bill Indian
- Who is Alice Paul?
- The Edge of Perfection
- The Final Camel Charge
- Jack Swilling
- Lights, Camera, Miracle?
- Great Movie (and TV) Hats
- The Lone Ranger Luggage Fiasco
- A Ride on the Wild Side
- Frontier Cavalry Trooper
- Dirty Words in Deadwood
- Skull in the Ashes
- Night Riders in the Tallgrass
- Max Evans’s Favorite Nature Reads
- On the Trail of Solomon Butcher
- Queen of the Cowtowns
- September 2013 Events