Author Archives: Bob Daniel

About Bob Daniel

Barbara Beemer Daniel, Brace's daughter, was my mother. She and I started The Last Radio Ranger project in 2011.

Lone Ranger Frontier Town—June 30, 1948

Word had spread. The Lone Ranger was on a Union Pacific train headed west. Destination? Lone Ranger Frontier Town. Occasion? The program’s fifteen years of radio broadcast were cause for celebration. And a celebration there would be. For just one memorable day, Cheyenne, Wyoming, was transformed into Lone Ranger Frontier Town and became the epicenter of the Lone Ranger’s adventures. There were […]

The First Broadcast – 80 Years Ago Today

For weeks, writer Fran Striker had submitted script after revised script to George W. Trendle for approval. The clarity of Trendle’s vision of the character was unwavering, and with it came rules. The Lone Ranger was to speak in perfect English. Forced to shoot, he would shoot to disarm, never to kill. There would be […]