With a budget of $250 million, this summer’s Disney movie, The Lone Ranger, will be the largest of any Western ever made in cinema history. Yet just who exactly was the Lone Ranger?
We know George W. Trendle and Fran Striker created the character for radio in 1933. A lawyer who owned WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, Trendle wanted to develop a radio series with a cowboy as the hero. He came up with a masked, lone Texas Ranger and then turned the idea over to Striker for further development. T
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