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The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie (1957)
The Masked Man and Tonto encounter Miss Aggie and some gold coins
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The "The Lone Ranger" was a half-hour television program which ran on the ABC television network from 1949 to 1957.
 
The program was a Western about the Lone Ranger, masked White man who rode a white horse named "Silver" and an American Indian named Tonto who roam the West fighting criminals and assisting people.
 
This episode is titled "The Law and Miss Aggie" and was first broadcast on April 11, 1957.
 
Miss Aggie Turner is a middle-aged woman who owns a ranch and who hates Indians. She believes that twenty years before Indians murdered her husband and son.
 
The Lone Ranger and Tonto save two Indians from Miss Aggie's cowboys and one of the Indians gives the Lone Ranger a gold coin. Miss Aggie has a similar coin and both are shown. The coins are actually "Radiant Eagle" tokens.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
1. Program title
The program begins with:
"A Fiery Horse With the Speed of Light, a Cloud of Dust and a Hearty Hi-Yo Silver! The Lone Ranger!"
 
Two Indians, Chief Flying Cloud and White Eagle, are travelling to Fort Carson for a meeting. They cross onto the ranch belonging to a middle-aged woman, Miss Aggie Turner, who has put up signs threatening Indians.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
2. Chief Flying Cloud and White Eagle
Three of Miss Aggie's cowboys attack the two Indians with guns and The Lone Ranger and Tonto rescue them. White Eagle thanks the pair and gives the Lone Ranger a gold coin.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
3. White Eagle gives the coin
White Eagle explains that when he was a child his mother would tell him that the coin would protect him from harm.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
4. The Lone Ranger examines coin
The Ranger and Tonto ride to Miss Aggie's ranch where they meet the three cowboys.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
5. Guns at the ranch
After the Lone Ranger beats the biggest cowboy in a fistfight the pair see Miss Aggie.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
6. Tonto, The Lone Ranger, Miss Aggie
She tells the men that twenty years ago a group of Indians killed her son and husband.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
7. Miss Aggie shows her son's gold coin
She then shows the men a gold coin similar to the one the Lone Ranger has.
The coin is a gold-plated brass "Radiant Eagle" token used for games.
 
A Radiant Eagle token
 
Radiant Eagle Token
8. Radiant Eagle Token
Brass, 32 mm, 13.83 gm
Obverse: Eagle with wings raised standing on leaves and arrows
Reverse: Number '10' in box within wreath
 
Miss Aggie holds the two coins.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
9. Two gold coins
The Lone Ranger asks if Miss Aggie ever told her son that the coins would protect him from harm. When she replies "yes" the Lone Ranger tells her that her son is alive.
 
Miss Aggie's cowboys have ridden out to kill the two Indians and the Lone Ranger and Tonto ride after them.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
10. The Lone Ranger and the Indians battle Miss Aggie's cowboys
The cowboys are defeated and the Lone Ranger, Tonto, and the two Indians go to the ranch.
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
11. White Eagle's background revealed
White Eagle asks the chief who the masked man was. Chief Flying Cloud replies "His is a name which brings honor to Whites and Indians alike - The Lone Ranger".
 
The Lone Ranger - The Law and Miss Aggie
12. Hi-Yo Silver!
Cast, Directors, Writers:
 
Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger
Jay Silverheels as Tonto
Florence Lake as Miss Aggie Turner
Dennis Moore as Keg
Brad Jackson as White Eagle
Joe Vitale as Chief Flying Cloud
Buddy Baer as Sampson O'Hara (Large cowboy)
 
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writers: Tom Seller, George W. Trendle
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