“Who was that Masked Man?”
That was the question that ended each episode of ABC’s The Lone Ranger, one of the best-liked television series of the 1950s.
From 1949 to 1957, Clayton Moore portrayed the Lone Ranger, except for 1952 and 1953, when actor John Hart replaced Moore as the masked frontier lawman. Although Hart portrayed the Lone Ranger for only one season, he went on to make occasional appearances in that role in other TV shows. He enjoyed being known as the “other”

March 2015
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- Vanishing Train Robbers
- His Skin Lives On
- For the Love of Money
- Augustine Chacon’s Musical Escape
- Libbie Custer on the Big Screen
- More Than a Museum
- Never Was a “Cattle Kate”
- The Murder of Andrew Trew Blachly
- Endless Rides
- Rock Throwing Captain Harry Wheeler
- McLaurys Get the Short End of the Stick
- Orders of the Arizona Rangers
- Dark Starr
- Black Bart
- Cole Younger. Confederate Guerrilla. Outlaw. Christian.
- A Woman Branded Wyoming Territory
- Sam Sixkiller
- Bonanza Comes to Ponderosa Ranch
- Gateway to the Cascades
- How Hot was That Coffee?
- Cowboy Actor Ben Johnson
- A Shootout Over Eggs?
- The Switch?
- Every Decent Old West Restaurant Table Held….
- Jar Head!
- Lotta Crabtree and Her Famous Cigarillos
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Just How Many Buffalo Were There?
- “Get Out or Get Shot”
- An Iron Gas Pipe Stands Over the Grave of the Dalton Gang at Coffeyville, KS.
- The Poet Bandit
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma
- Exploring the Old Oregon Country
- The Moonshiner Who Got Away with Murder
- March 2015 Events
- The Last Sioux Warrior
- Surviving the Rapids
- 17 Places to Hang Your Hat in the West
- The Severed Heads Campaign
- The Other Lone Ranger’s Colt
- Buffalo Bill’s Deadly Acts
- “It’s My Obsession”
- What happened to Chuck Connors?
- Was “Arizona Charlie” Meadows real?
- Andy Thomas
- What made John Wesley Hardin such an effective gunfighter?
- Henry Larkin Abbot
- Who was the last Old West gunfighter?
- Did Wild Bill Hickok allow for trajectory in his 1865 duel?
- CRITERION AND MR. FORD
- Western Writers of America President Sherry Monahan Shares Her Love of Books
- Origins Of Western Tourism
- Wyatt Earp Reimagined
- Working Women Of The West
- Juan Bautista de Anza: Sonora’s Son of the Empire
- Rough Drafts 3/15
- CRITERION AND MR. FORD