Some of them were Secret Service series.">Īnd the owner of WXYZ, George Trendle, wanted a Western. "They were buying five programs a week from him," says the late writer's son, Fran Striker Jr. In 1933, Fran Striker, a self-described hack writer, was in Buffalo, N.Y., writing radio scripts for, among other stations, WXYZ in Detroit. Basic facts - names, dates, places - have all been adjusted and retrofitted over the 75 years since he first hit the airwaves.īut some things are always the same: He's always on horseback. "You Lone Ranger."Īnd he's been the Lone Ranger ever since - on radio, in movies, in novels, on television, in comic books. The Indian showed him the graves of the other five Rangers - and did the subtraction.
And he asked his savior what had happened to his comrades. Four days later, the surviving Ranger came to. The Indian recognized his boyhood companion, carried him to a nearby cave and nursed him back to health. The ranger, who was wounded but still clinging to life, had saved that Indian from outlaw raiders a few years earlier, when the two were just boys. Riding on a canyon floor, they came under rifle fire from a gang of outlaws on the cliffs above.įive died the sixth was left for dead and would have died that day but for an amazing coincidence: After the shooting was over, an Indian man happened upon the scene of the ambush. In 1874, six Texas Rangers were betrayed by a guide and ambushed at Bryant's Gap.
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