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Armstrong,
John
Aten, Ira
Baylor,
George
Brooks, J.
Abijah
Burton,
Marvin
Crowder, Robert
A.
Doherty,
Bobby Paul
Ford, John S.
Gillett,
James B.
Gonzaullas,
Manuel T.
Guffey, Stanley
Keith
Hall, Jesse
Lee
Hamer, Francis
A.
Hays, John Coffee
Hickman,
Thomas R.
Hughes, John
R.
Jones, John
B.
Klevenhagen,
John J., Sr.
Marsh, Bryan
Miller,
Charles E.
McCulloch,
Benjamin
McDonald,
William J.
McNelly,
Leander
Peoples,
Clinton T.
Riddles,
James E.
Rogers, John
H.
Ross, Lawrence
S.
Walker,
Samuel H.
Wallace,
William
Wright,
William L.
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 Manuel Trazazas Gonzaullas
"Lonewolf"
1891-1977
Manuel Trazazas
Gonzaullas was born in 1891 in Cádiz, Spain to a Spanish father and
Canadian mother who were naturalized U.S. citizens.
He served as a Mexican army major at age 20, worked five years for the
U.S. Treasury Department, and joined the Texas Rangers in 1920. During
the '20s and '30s, Gonzaullas enforced the law in the oil fields and
on the border. Known as "El Lobo Solo" (the Lone Wolf), he
pursued bootleggers, gamblers and drug runners alone.
In 1933, Governor Miriam Ferguson fired Gonzaullas
and other Texas Rangers. In response, the Texas Legislature created
the independent Department of Public Safety in 1935. Gonzaullus was
appointed Superintendent of the D.P.S. Bureau of Intelligence and created
a crime laboratory second only to that of the F.B.I. In 1940, Gonzaullas
resigned from the Bureau and rejoined the Rangers as Captain of Company
B in Dallas. After distinguished service, he retired in 1951, becoming
a technical consultant for radio, motion pictures, and television shows
such as Tales of the Texas Rangers. He helped found the Texas
Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in 1968.
Captain Gonzaullas died in Dallas in 1977 at age
85, leaving his scrapbooks and personal papers to the Texas Ranger Hall
of Fame and Museum.
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