After the Cavendish gang ambushed the 6 Texas Rangers and Tonto nursed the future Lone Ranger back to health, the Lone Ranger needed a mount.
I just watched the first few episodes of the tv Lone Ranger series.
On television, Silver's story followed the accepted legend put forth in the radio series. It is revealed in the radio episode, Radio: The Theft of Silver that Silver is shod with silver horseshoes marking him as the most famous horse in the West. After Dusty's death, the Ranger and Tonto proceeded to Wild Horse Canyon and happened upon Silver. The Lone Ranger's original horse was a chesnut mare named Dusty, who was shot and killed by Butch Cavendish as he and Tonto were pusuing. Silver sired a son, named Victor, who belonged to the Lone Ranger's nephew, Dan Reid Jr.Īs with the origin of the Lone Ranger himself, the back story of how Silver came to be with the Lone Ranger was retconned. With the new powerful horse as his ally, the Lone Ranger easily overtakes and captures Cavendish. The Lone Ranger spent several days training the mustang before he is ready to continue the pursuit of Butch Cavendish. This started a new adventure for both the horse and Ranger. When Tonto remarks that the horse, it's coat glistening in the sun, looks "silver white", the Lone Ranger calls out to him using the name "Silver", and for reasons stronger than gratitude, the horse decides to stay on with him.
The Masked Man and Tonto nurse the horse back to health, and though he badly wants the horse for his own, the Lone Ranger also understands that the horse has fought for his freedom and deserves to be free. They soon find the white horse engaged in death battle with a buffalo, who has already wounded the horse and is about to finish it off when it is shot and killed by the Lone Ranger. When the Lone Ranger mentions the horse and where it lives, he declares they'll be on the lookout for the horse while they continue their pursuit of Cavendish. Sometime after the ambush at Bryant's Gap, the Lone Ranger and Tonto are in pursuit of Butch Cavendish when they are fired upon by Cavendish himself, and though he missed the Ranger, he shot and killed his horse. The accepted story of Silver's origin has the white horse living in Wild Horse Canyon.