A classic joke. I grew up with this one. And the fact that it shows up in the Wikipedia article
on The Lone Ranger
suggests that many others did so too.
The punchline
of a popular Lone Ranger joke of the 1960s (or earlier) has taken on a memetic
status of its own. The joke goes something like:
LR: "Tonto! We're surrounded by hostile
Indians!",
Tonto:
"What you mean WE, paleface?"