No first name was given to the Lone Ranger during the radio and television program. His mother was killed in an Indian attack and the kindly woman who raised him got the name Dan from (This is also the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew, although we do not know what his trueįirst name was. We know that the Ranger's last name is "Reid," because his brother who was killed in the ambush by the Cavendish This is another question that can be answered in two ways. "tonto." This meant "wild one." Jewell remembered the word, liked it, and gave the name to the Lone Ranger's Indian Sometimes he would get rowdy and the other Indians would call him One of the Indians apparently had a penchant forĭrinking after the children had gone to sleep. Indians who would come to the camp to tell stories to the children. Tonto, he said, is another Potowatomie word. Jim Jewell says that Striker was remembering wrong. (This was a caveman character Striker had created in another radio program.) This is true, but it was not that meaning that was intended by the producers of the show.įran Striker told the Saturday Evening Post that he invented Tonto's name and that it was picked by merely alterring Isn't it true that Tonto means "fool" in Spanish? Kemosabe means "faithful friend" or "trusty scout." Who ran a boy's camp named "Camp Kee-mo-sah-bee."
One of the shows' producers, Jim Jewell, had a father-in-law Is actually from the language of the Potowatomie Indians. And no, it doesn't mean "horse's butt." It Kemosabe (or any of the other various spellings) is a real word. Is Kemosabe a real word? What does it really mean? Wiped out except for Tonto who was found and saved by a young John Reid long before he became a Texas Ranger. The state of Michigan (The Lone Ranger originated at WXYZ in Detroit.) According to Lone Ranger lore they were all The Potowatomie Indians were a real tribe who originally lived in and around What tribe of Indians does Tonto belong to? Killed in an Indian attack and he was taken in by Grandma Frisbee, who raised him. The Lone Ranger's nephew was Dan Reid, Jr, however, we do not know what his true first name was. Who is the Lone Ranger's Nephew? What is his horse's name? He was known as "White Feller" in the early Lone Ranger novels. Serials they realized that it would make Silver less impressive that way, so Scout was changed.
Scout was originally supposed to be solid white like Silver, but when they made the movie After a publicity photo was taken of the Lone Ranger and Tonto this way, WXYZ wisely decided to Tonto's horse is named "Scout." He's a spotted palamino or "paint." Originally, Tonto rode double with the Lone